POST-OFFICE INCIVILITY.
[TO THE EDITOR. OF TER " SPECTATOR."1
Sur,—You say in your short notice that Sir James Fergusson's censure of the female employees of the Post Office is just.. Allow me to doubt it. I have habitually used the post-office- in High Street, Hampstead, which is served entirely by- women, and not only have I never been treated with incivility, but I have found the young women on more than one occasion ready to do me little services which were certainly not in. the " letter of the bond." I have heard of incivilities here,. but I have never seen them ; and I cannot help thinking that the original cry against these women must have arisen from some one who had a prejudice against women's work, and who was determined to imagine incivility. It is a pity that Sir James Fergusson's circulars cannot be addressed to cus- tomers as well as to officials.—I am, Sir, &c., [An individual experience, which is, we believe, much more common than the experience of those who have complaints to make, can prove nothing. Sir James Fergusson did not write for the' benefit of the majority of these employees and employes, but for the exceptions.—En. Spectator.]
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