WEEK-END INCONVENIENCES
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I do not understand why week-end arrangements progressively increase public inconvenience. Recently the London Passenger Transport Board announced that no lost property can be recovered at any time an Saturday, although one can well imagine the most urgent need for retrieving it, Many people must experience extreme inconvenience by being held up for two days in this unnecessary manner. I once lost some luggage in Paris on a Sunday and was told that I could not recover it until Monday afternoon ; but the system was working on Monday afternoon, which is preferred as a half-holiday to Saturday. At any rate the office was not closed for two whole days together.
Again, the result of the Post Office week-end is that a vast quantity of letters arrive on Saturday morning and very few on Monday morning ; yet in spite of this a large number of offices close on Saturday morning.
Moreover, I may mention that public convenience is so far disregarded : by the Society of Lincoln's Inn that on Saturday last the clock was an hour late on Saturday morning because the man who attends to it apparently considers it beneath his dignity to work on Saturday. I have complained about this before ; but apparently complaints have no effect, Why should the Jewish Sabbath prevail over Gentile
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