CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1063, 20 April 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold our sei res responsible for opinions expressed by our correspondents.’] “ CIRCUMLOCUTION IN THE STAMP DEPARTMENT.” TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The leader of Tuesday night’s Herald quite surprised me. The writer orates in a lamentable manner on the injustice done Mrs. Browne and Mr. Adams, bringing what he imagines, forcible arguments to bear on the subject, he tries to argue a good case on a bad foundation, for example, he states that impressed stamps cannot be bought at the Post Office, he also states that the 2j per cent, allowed has been reduced to 2 per cent., on postage stamps, and only 51 in the pound allowed on “ impressed stamps,” which, by-the-bye, he states are “in hourly demand through each business day of the week.” Now, if “ impressed stamps ” are in such demand, would it not pay the dealers to keep a good supply on hand. He then states the different stages which a business man’s requisition for stamps bus to pass through in case they have no supply on hand, but he omits stating that a business man can buy or get printed blank unstamped P.N.’s, and then simply stamp them with the usual adhesive duty stamps or penny stamps, either of which would legalise the document. If the writer had not been interested in the sale of stamps w’ould he have allowed such a silly and fallacious matter to constitute the subject of a leading article, which apparently has taken its origin on a very appropriate day, namely, All Fools Day, or the Ist of April. —Yours, Ac., Stamp.