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Stamp duty.(New Zealand Post gets contract to run postal service in Trinidad and Tobago)(Brief Article)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19990403
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TRINIDAD'S postal service seems barely to have improved since Anthony Trollope published his "Travels in the West Indies and the Spanish Main" in 1859, after having rearranged the Caribbean end of Queen Victoria's Royal Mail. Deliveries reach only half the islands' households. Letters within the island take around a week; airmail from Britain can sometimes take two months. One consignment of surface mail mouldered on the docks for a year. Fashion magazines with enticing pictures may get "lost" in the post (mysteriously, The Economist gets through unscathed).

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