To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Datny News." is time attention was down to the vagaries of the Chinese Post Office, the serious delays and irregularity, of which that institution is guilty in forwarding mails to Weihuiwei. A sound test of the efficiency of a postal service is the regularity or irregularity, the promptness or delay, with which one's daily paper arrives. A recent occurrence is typical of much that has happened in the past few months. The "North-China Daily News" of the 6th. instant went from Shanghai by a steamer leaving the same day and wag delivered here on the 8th. But the four previous is es (March 1, 2, 3 and 5) were held back for the next boat and reached local subscribers on the 10th.! This is by no means an isolated instance. Further, is there any reason why a steamer, advertised to leave. Shanghai in the forenoon, say, at 10 or 11 a.m, should not bring the paper for that day? It is probable that the paper is posted before 7 a.m. Does it mean that in taking over the loca) foreign post offices the C. P. O. has bitten off more than it can chew?
T an, ete., Weihaiwei, Mawrch 11, 1923.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.