14 MAY 1965, Page 15

Message Delayed

StR,—Quoodle is too hasty in his praise of his recent discovery, the Post Office messenger service. I have been using this service for years. Once it served me admirably. But now it employs too few messen- gers. I can seldom obtain one, in business hours, within- a guaranteed time. and then have to rely, all too often, on the ruinous expedient of sending my messages by taxi, without benefit to the national income. The Postmaster-General should recruit extra messengers, even if he has to charge an extra sixpence a mile for their valuable services.

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