MANY “ILLEGAL” PARCELS ARRIVING
LONDON, Dec. 8. Customs squads at British postal depots were strengthened by the largest number of officials ever assigned to a single operation when it was found that “ illegal ” food parcels were arriving from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa at an “ alarming rate,” says Reuters. People in Britain ordered parcels from dominion firms, and paid for them in sterling placed to the firms’ credit in English banking accounts. The parcels will never be delivered.
A Board of Trade spokesman said it was illegal to send an order to an overseas firm.
About 70,000 unsolicited food parcels which were admitted without question are being sorted daily at the larger postal depots, and a further 3000 parcels a day are being made up at “express food gift centres." Some dominion officials are puzzled at the “ strange pride ” of some elderly people who are refusing gifts of food and clothing, saying they could not take charity.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 5
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