the sale
of stamps, posting, registration, and enquiries, 13 hours à
five hours
and
i. e.
on
a
day Sunday
instead of ten,
instead.
of one,
each
"Jam. to 8pm, and G to 2 on Sundays. This would quire the public 83 hours eart week for Postal transactions (except Money Order business) instead
2.
ar increase
of
Blat present,
more than 33 per cent.
of m
The movease of expenditure, deducting
but allowing nothing for
rent go
reimbursements, is not quite 10 per cent. It will perhaps be said that the
extra hours thus secured are those which
nobody wank. Iuch a criticism can
arise only from
with the su
an
imperfect acquaintance
bject. Steame
re to arrive at all.
often very.
hours, and their stay here is short. They bring passenger, officers,
crew, many of the Post Office.
evening by first thing
and
whom want something at Persons arrive late in the
-one steamer to leave by another
the next morning, and
also want some
they
thing at the Post Office. It
is
is not too much to say
that
485 nearly every
evening finds several such persons
-persons wandering round the building, trying this door and that,
in the vain attempt to get what they want. Others doubtless would come, but that they
know it is useless. Auch
numerous E.
a
every
care are
Sunday. One man
wants Money Order, another wank stampo, another wants to register a parcel, a fourth letters for him, and he is
thinks there are
going to sea at daylight.
9.
No doubt some
of the attempted
made in
applications referred to might be Office hours, but the greater part of them represent real hardships. People
le do not
wander about the streets at 8 o'clock
at night by choice . Whilst perhaps it will never be worth while to keep the Post- Office open day and night,
might, as the Telegraph Offices
are
that is the practice
to which we shall more and more have to approximate.
10.
I venture to express a hope
that
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