More Post Office Shortcomings
Sia,—You recently had some correspondence criticising the Post Office. May I add one case which seems to me to condemn utterly the monopoly system which is now called nationalisation.
Three weeks ago I moved into a flat. The flat had a telephone, but, of course, it was not my number. I applied, before moving, for the telephone at my old address to be transferred, and, until this could be done, for it to be temporarily disconnected. The Post Office have steadily refused (and I have even telegraphed the Postmaster General) to disconnect the telephone, and in consequence more than 100 people have rung up, my old number, some of them from as far away as Bradford and Market Rasen. In every case they have been put through to, the present tenants of the house, simply to be told I have moved. This means their mbney for the call has been taken by the Post Office under false pretences.
The number is still listed as mine in the directory, and is on all my notepaper. If the Post Office cannot let me have this number on the telephone at my new address (three hundred yards away) they could at least disconnect it. But they leave the number in commission and collect the money from people who they know cannot be put through to me. I understand that the operation of changing my number to my present telephone would take the engineers ten minutes, at recognised trade- union speed. To disconnect my old number, one minute. There is no wonder 1 am going to vote Conservative at the election for the first
time in my life.—Yours faithfully, AUSTIN LEE. St. Stephen's Vicarage, Parkside Road. Hounslow, Middlesex.
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