LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

Tf a, firm places a “sticker” on an account asking for payment, or pointing out that the amount owing is overdue, or that, “as the annual balance is taking place a settlement would be appreciated,” the missive become a letter under the eagle eye of the postal authorities. As such it requires a twopenny stamp. The matter was discussed briefly at the Wanganui Clnfmber of Commerce meeting last week (states the “Chronicle”), one member characterising the : regulation as absurd. He had simply put the word “overdue” on one of two .statements and “down the axe had fallen.” A copy of a reply from the Postal Department which -a.'firm had rereived was forwarded for information. This showed that it was permissible for a firm to point out that its annual balance’was due, but if settlement of an account was asked for the missive ceased its identity as a bill and became a letter. The chamber decided to reaffirm its opinion that nostage on letters delivered in town should he one penny, and to protest against the regulation regarding “stickers.”