Show post offices in competition when the post onice was first opened at kal peng china the clerks had a fiat with some men ineil who bought stamps slid and refused to go way away until the stamps wele licked and etal on oil I 1 their heir envelopes for them the foreign rost 0 offices dices it in palestine arn am usually convulsed hy by a spirit of keen if a parcel cc exceeding tile lie regulation weight or Is taken to oil an office on ice and re heed fiesel the traveler in ili the majority ol of cases lias only to threaten to take it to a rival office and it is straightway received rece led without a murmur so keen keell Is the rivalry between some of these offices thai residents in palestine pos fess a free post within certain districts between jaffa and the surrounding colonies and also within Ivi thill jerusalem tile the german and austrian offices make no charge b tor the delivery of local letters |