POST-OFFICE ABUSES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—While you were penning and publishing your remarks on the Money- Order Department of the Post-office, one of your regular constituents was enduring the inconvenience you described. In the North of England, last week, failing finances warned me that I might
not be able to get home comfortably. Railroads don't credit scripless travellers; and travelling on foot just now would be awkward. Therefore I wrote to better half for a small supply, to meet me at a given point. Order duly came, duly stamped—all right, but "No advice." Four days regularly received the same
answer, after waiting each day from half an hour to three-quarters, among a
crowd in the small money-order black hole of a busy provincial town. Here was a double neglect—for provincial town should have written up toLondon to inquire the cause of London's omission. Luckily I bad a friend—got cash—and arrived -home; and I am writing, on the eleventh day, without any other satisfaction about my money, than an oblong document, "On Her Majesty's Service," stating that my complaint will be attended to.
A CONSTANT BUYER AND PRESERVER OF THE SPECTATOR.
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