HEAVILY TAXED.
AIR MAIL CORRESPONDENCE. IXSUFF [CI KXT I'OSTAC E. Many Aucklanders, and no doubt tieoplo in other parts of Xew Zealand. have discovered that receiving correspondence brought by <tir mail from England may be expensive. Several people Who had letters forwarded them from England by the recent mail received a shock when their correspondence) owing to insufficient postage, was taxed up to as much as £2. One Aueklandbr who received a letter bee.iing postage to the value of 2/ii, was called upon to pay an additional 10/(1.
Tim explanation offered by the postal authorities is that the senders of the Correspondence in England had attached postage at the old Karachi rate \vhich had been considerably increased with the inauguration of the new Singapore to Australia Ret-vice* All the ooi-res-
pondcnce which had been heavily taxed had not been accepted, as persons had the tfght of refusing to t;ikc delivefy, and many had made use of that right.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 8
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