Telegraph (Brisbane), Saturday
20 February 1886, page 5
A Shot at the Post
Office
To the Editor. — Sir,— You will oblige a great number of the public by
inserting this letter. I wish to bring to your notice the way the public are
treated by the post office official. My chief complaint is the delivery of
newspapers at the G. P.O. I have been kept times out of number for over half an
hour knocking. I want to know are the public to be treated in this way by their
paid servants? Is a man to lose his time because the clerks are too independent
to attend, and when they do attend serve one as if they were doing a favour for
you? In no other post office are things carried on as in Brisbane. If the
present clerks won't do the work, why not got some who will. I should like to
know what the clerks think they have to do for the money paid them by the
public? Don't they know that they are paid servants of the public to do their
work? It is no good applying to the Postmaster General or Under Secretary. Those
individuals also forget they are paid servants of the public, and the only way
to get at them is by the aid of the Press, or by a public meeting to protest
against the ways of the post office, especially the newspaper delivery.—
Yours, &c, Reform.
