The Post Office.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20175, 2 March 1931, Page 8

The Post Office.

It will be interesting if the PostmasterGeneral discovers to-day that two and two make a little left than fouiS His hope is that so many new pennies will be added to so many, already assigned to him that the Consolidated Fund will benefit by £000)000) sad this may happen. But it is at least conceivable that bo many of the original pennies will be taken away that he will gain on the roundabout only what has been lost on the swings. It is clear also if this does happen that the last state of the fdet Office may be jmim than the flrtst, since people will have discovered, not rtrity what (hey can do when they try, btit that the Post Office and back Id distance between two'pointßr<' "There are hundreds, thousands, tpn#,: of of letters posted every day, that .could' just, aa My ;by>ittd./ Even ill eSstiiiepch thejttM'&S so large; that ,if we, ojace airive at it we may be too deeply impressed to go black to our bad old extravagant ways. Any firm that sends a hundred letters a day to City addroftea may just a* well, under the, new scale of charges, employ a messenger, since, his time would not be ftrholly oectipied fa'-'Mtttfaig letters, tad. letter* are not often the only mail tatter to be/deliveriid. Farther, it is H6t aljtf&ys, 6t nearly always, hekseasary |o seal Ifetters which go tlttbtlgh the post, and since it ie now necessary to out efcpenwifc!, there ;wiU be a, great increase in the riiltribe* of demands, reminders/ acknowledgments, and invita- | tfona Ut open ■ finally, ' $6. Wrvice e^irs-waiting for ttie long-ilwtMUie parcel* the deUvejfy. tanfej Aiid bloyele ■ outJfiifpr3;fo# the parcel that ife to.go no farther than, the fcufettrbfl j: not' to men* tionwives and creditors " ntirsing their- * wrath td keefi. it warm/' if we spend 4 shilling when sixpence Will do.' It will Apt be % isoxpiOßh if Mr Ronald hat* to ask his tolleagbe Mr AtiiiOftj tb say whether seven times alneia ths same tbing&B of, aa Mar,jorie Jletoiijtg,.su&pfeaied, '-'the very j .B. 1 <•