To the Editor of the Nommi-Cuixa Darcy News!
Sin—I wonder whether the authorities at the General Post Ofice are ware of a rather disagreeable "experience which I had, viz: T mailed Sri alt mail letter addressed to Japan, ft 4 pan, on April 23, the letter being taken to the Post OMice where it-was duly weighed by a postal employee who said that 93 cents was the postage required. The stamps were" duly affixed and the letter thrown into the box so that: it would bbe in good time for the closing of Japan airmail at 8 pin. This morn~ ing, Lo, almost three full days later, the loller was again delivered to me, together with a slip which informed me that the postage was insufficient and that five cents would have to be added. 'The letter in question was of a very urgent nature (otherwise Would have been forwarded by ordinary mall) "and I see no reason why it should take the Post OMlce the better part of three days to collect five cents' postage. The re~ tipient of the letter would, no doubt, have paid the difference and this unnecessary delay would have been Shanghai, Apr, 27.
Shanghai, Apr. 26.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.