It was cold today, being quite different from yesterday. At 5:30 in morning, I went to the Takanawa Post Office to get a registered mail addressed to me. Although a postman tried to deliver it yesterday, I was not at home when he came. A night duty clerk picked up the mail from the undelivered file and handed it to me without grimace.
It is a wonderful system to get mails for 24 hours whenever you demand to have them. Of course you can ask them to deliver within about three hours of your specified time. But they do note deliver them in early morning or late in evening. I think there are a few people who want to get them as early as possible. To those people, this system, under which you can get mails at any time, is very convenient and valuable. (Of course, you can send mails including express mails and registered mails for 24 hours.)
The civilian mail services are making efforts to have better services than the national mail service. But I think they never have 24 hour service. Furthermore, they never have a service system like general delivery. To those people who leave their home frequently, the civilian mail should have such service systems.