To the Editor of the "Nomru-Cuxa Dany News"
Sim—So many erllicisms of the Chinese Post Office have recently ap eared in your "Letters to the Editor" columns that I feel I should ike to put on record my humble opinion that the postal service here compares most favourably with that of any other country, T quite agree with your learned correspondent Mr. Kao Kwox. that 'W. B, would do far belter to state his complaint in writing to the Postmaster and thus give the latter an opportunity, of rectifying what must be an unusual sorting-room error, rather than voice his grievance In the press, As Mr. Kao Kwox says, there are many ways beyond the control of the Post Office in which a parcel may go astray. For instance, the other day received an addressed wrapper from the Shanghai Post Office with an accompanying notice to the effect that the wrapper had become detached from the contents, but that if T could name the probable contents they would do their best to trace same in the Dead Letter Department, T consider this ample proof of their care and thoroughness, and while 1 have not yet had time'to learn from them whether or not they have been successful, I have not the slightest doubt that they will do their utmost the matter.
'A similar fate may well have befallen W-B's parcel, but perhaps in hhis case the wrapper has been lost, leaving the Post OMlce with no clue to the destination of the package.
This is the first time in nearly ive years in China that any mail has to my knowledge failed to reach me promptly, and this case is certainly no fault of the Postal Service, Tienisin, Mar. 31.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.