Post Haste. By Ivor Halstead. (Lindsay Drummond. 7s. 6d.)
IN a recent issue of a Sunday newspaper Mr. W. A. Foyle, the book- seller, wrote a letter stating that in the last forty years his firm has despatched millions of parcels and that only one had gone astray on account of Post Office carelessness. A proud record indeed, and Post Haste gives the reader some idea of how it has been achieved. "The intricate social fabric of our modern day could not survive without the unifying work done by the Post Office," says Mr. Halstead, and. to realise the truth of that statement one has only to try 'and -imagine life without the Post Office. -Atirdii-g- the miracles of the war has been the way in which posts have con- tinued to be collected and delivered, telephones and telegraphs to function, post offices to keep open throughout the worst the enemy has been able to do in the way of bombing; to its peacetime services the Post Office has added airgraph fetters, the conveyance of Red Cross parcels to prisoners of war, the complicated process of delivering mail to armies on the move. All these functions of the Post Office in peace and war are described and brought to life in Post Haste, and anyone who has ever posted a letter, made a telephone call, bought a savings stamp, sent a telegram—and that surely in this country means everyone above the age of infancy —will find something of interest in this book.
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