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Many a biting gibe lias been Jaunehetf at Governmental red tape, but it hrs been left to the Postal Department to, point the moral that red tape may be a blessing in disguise if only it is used to tie up the eccentricities of departmental officers who have the audacity to propose such a scheme as that which is now afoot to make the Dominion a laughingstock. Admitting that the Government ie in desperate need of obtaining more revenue, there are limits to the nietlode whereby this need may proper-.y and legitimately be supplied, and the project of the Post Office in calling for tenders for the right to advertise on «J private letters and other packets entrusted to that department td deliver, certainly does not come within this category. Apparently some ultra-intel-digent postal officer, bearing in mind that during the war patriotic announcements on envelopes -were much in evidence, has hit upon the idea of swelling t-he postal revenue by utilising the property of the public for advertising purposes, as a matter of right, ignoring the fact that war-time printed matter on envelopes was entirely optional and non-revenue producing. There 'is a vital principle at stake in the present mad-brained scheme, inasmuch as it violates the absolute sanctity of posted matter and practically gives the Gov,ernment a proprietary right to do as
they please with goods committed to their charge for safe delivery, and for no other purpose. Not for an instant should the public countenance such a breach of contract. The department might just as Well contemplate utilising the whole of its staff and mail vehicles as advertising media. Designs could be invited for attractive advertising costumes for the staff, and would certainly compel attention in the larger centres, and the brilliant idea could bo extended to the railway service. There is, however, enough common-sense in the Dominion to make short work of Such foolish projects.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1922, Page 4
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