SLOW POST
SIR,—Sir Stanley Unwin's plea is timely. We pay more and get less for our money. Business expedition suffers from the slowness of the G.P.O.'s restoration of pre-war facilities. Special messengers and express deliveries cannot be obtained with any degree of certainty. Although a letter posted in North Suffolk at 8 p.m. on Sunday evening is delivered by the first post on Monday morning in London, London and its suburbs have to
put up with last collections as early as 6.30 or even earlier. As for Sunday, posting has to be before 4 p.m. in many places in the London area. Those who live in flats without domestic help cannot possibly receive parcels if they have to work in the City and thus be absent at the one time of the day (usually 11 a.m.) when the parcels are delivered. The other day a parcel bearing a 6d. stamp cost me 5d. in bus fares and a 3d. "fine" to collect for that reason.
The courtesy of the officials and in particular of the postmen is not in question. It is pleasant to note the resourcefulness and good temper of the men who bring our mails and wrestle with the idiosyncrasies of house
and flat numbering.—Yours faithfully, EDWIN HAWARD. Authors' Club, 2 Whitehall Court, S.W.r.
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