THE PENNY POST.
The Age, writing of the dispute concerning the delivery of New Zealand letters in Victoria, says : “The Postal Department, in refusing to admit penny postage letters, because there is as yet no reciprocity between that State and Victoria, is adopting a dog in the manger policy. The concession involves no loss of revenue, and tho utmost harm it can do—if that be harm at all—is to give a few more letters to the Victorian postman to deliver. Each State retains the postage paid in its own borders, so that the fact that New Zealand only charges her people Itl for sending a letter to Victoria does not cause thejloss of one half-penny of income to the Victorian Post Office. In these circumstances, to maintain a barrier against Now Zealand cheap letters is as unjustifiable as it is petty. Moreover, as in a few months’ time Victoria herself will have adopted the penny postage system, the present departmental policy has about it a touch of both meanness and obstinacy.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 109, 16 February 1901, Page 3
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171THE PENNY POST. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 109, 16 February 1901, Page 3
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