JUSTICE TO THE POST OFFICE.
[To no Emma or rut " Spearerea."]
Sni,—Is not even the Post Office worthy of fair play? I suffer from its deficiencies fully as much as anyone whose correspond- ence is addressed to his private dwelling, and therefore am not likely to be its uncompromising defender. What may be reasonably asked is, Has the Post Office proved a failure in its discharge of what are really Post Office tasks? An enormous and greatly varied amount of work, in no sense truly " postal," has been put upon it. Telegraphing, banking, insuring, tele- phoning have no necessary connexion with postal work. Assigning them to the Post Office was simply a mailer of assumed convenience. A special and minute investigation of the manner in which the Post Office discharges proper Post Office duties ought to result in enabling the country to see if it* postal service is still what it used to be, vie., the most efficient and the cheapest in the world, and if it has been, or is likely to be, successful as a bank, an insurance office, a telegraphic
organization, &o.—I am, Sir, &c., C. P.
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