4 NOVEMBER 1949, Page 18

Post Office and Public

SIR,—I was so glad to see that in your last issue there was a paragraph complaining about our postal service. I don't understand the quiescence of the country under this infliction ; really we must be a sadly dispirited lot! Here, in Edinburgh, our last delivery of letters is sent out at 11 a.m. When I lived in Edinburgh before the -First World War we had—even in the suburbs—six deliveries per diem. Between the wars they were limited, I think, to three, or at most four.

I am still (October 31st) awaiting delivery of a postcard which (I am assured) was posted to me from another district of the city on Octo- ber 26th. And so it goes on intolerably!—Yours faithfully,