A CLERK'S GRIEVANCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 4

A CLERK'S GRIEVANCE.

Sir, —"Will you allow mo to point out that iu tho present issue of our postago stamps the shilling and fourpeimy are almost the same colour? I enclose specimens so that you may see them sklo by side. We often sort letters in rather dim light, and if the postmark is heavy, it takes a bit of' looking to s'oe which is ivhich.. As the old fourpenny with the little picture in the riiiddle is still on sale in many offices, it would be an easy thing to stop printing any moro of the new fourpenny, and print enough of the old to keep us. going until stamps with King George's head come out. I think you will agreo two stamps I complain of are really tho same colour. They differ iu shade, but they are both orangevermilion. They have a yarn hero that a man in the bush put a fourpenny stamp on an agreement by mistake for a shilling one. If that is true it will cost him five pounds if ever he takes that agreement into Court to provo a case. If the Post Oilico have made a blunder, isn't it better to own up and rectify it at once? —I am, etc., SORTING CLERK. Eketahuna, July 21. . [Tho specimens- forwarded by our correspondent bear out his contention.]