We have talked in terms of having the best and cheapest postal service in the world, claiming that our postmen are wonderful—and they are.
First, it puts postmen's pay right in 1964 and 1965.
There is, in general, no shortage on the latter grade, which we fill from postmen.
They might have been the local postmen or the local road men.
I want to turn next to the particular case of the postmen.
I think that this might come in the same category as the suggestion that postmen should deliver the milk.
Why should postmen, whose earnings are not very high, be called upon to pay a penny a week towards improving their canteen?
In rural areas postmen carry stamps with them, which may be purchased on their rounds.
