" PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE " SIR,—In a letter to
you so headed, Miss Casson, contrasting the regular " on time " publication of The Spectator with its delayed postal delivery, does, I fear. less than justice to the magnificent service record of the Post Office during the five war years. May I show the other side of the picture? True, The Spectator, postmarked London on Thursday, reaches me normally on Saturday morning ; but the Birmingham Weekly Post, postmarked Birmingham on Friday, is invariably delivered to me by
3 p.m. on the afternoon of that day. .
Remembering the strain on rail and road communications between the Midlands and South Devon during the April-June period, and the abnormal evacuation and holiday traffic of July and August, that the Post Office can bring a newspaper some 180 miles to my door in 15 hours with unfailing regularity throughout that period causes me, with gratitude, to " Salute the Post Office." And, until the glad day dawns when the postman brings The Spectator once more to my Friday breakfast-table,
I shall, I hope, assume that certain conditions, for which the Post Office is in no way responsible, are operating in the London area.—Yours, &c.,
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