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Shannon News, 4 September 1923, Page 3

The Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department has issued a notice. which is to be exhibited at all post offices drawing attention to the provision in the law making it an offence for a person to open a letter addressed to another person. It is stated that the offence has recently grown more common than it used to he iu certain circles, either through inadvertence or idle curiosity. The notice is as follows: “Before a letter is opened, the address, should be examined. The delivery of a letter io a person for whom it is not, intended does not excuse the opening of the letter by that person. Section 01 fl) of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1 DOS prescribes that every person who, contrary to his duty, opens, or procures. or suffers to be opened, a postal Packet, is liable on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, or to a fine of £SO, or to both.”