To the Editor of the "NowrH-Cuiwa Datty News."
Sm,—The casual manner in which) the Chinese postal "authorities"
public, and the inefficiency'
which they function, is almost ble. Like the elimination of foreign assessors in local Chinese, courts, the closing up of foreign post offices has set the clock back in China about half-a-century.
'An inconspicuous article appears} your issue to-day stating that for about a week" parcel post with Manchuria has not' Leen functioning, and. that letters are being] surcharged six cents for "express foes" and six cents for delivery via Dairen. Nothing. ix said about} newspapers, and nothing about} Tetters that scores of firms in Shanghai must have mailed with the usual four cent stomp om. What} has become of these letters: and newspapers? Have they been thrown aside or forwarded, for none fas far as I can trace have been returned, nor could be Ina great many cases unless they were opened to discover the address of the senders.
Your article is a valuable and informative one, and criticism of it} may. seem invidious; but it. leaves {oo much to the Imagination. One doubt whether the "express, feo" is compulsory or not for first class mail matter, and what the situation is with printed matter, newspapers, and registration, If a telegram is re-routed by local foreign telegraph company. on, recount of a temporary dislocation the fact is advertised In the press, und again when normal routes. are in operation. How much more.necessury is it for' the Post. Office to advertise the total cessation of mail facilities with a large province like Manchutia; or important changes rates?" Even if they now consider to be a foreign country the least they can do in justice to their own nationals, to say nothing of foreigners, is to advertise the conditions under which mail matter of all kinds will) be accepted—for transmission, Lost 1x TH Post.
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