C.O.D. SYSTEM.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19448, 23 October 1928, Page 11

C.O.D. SYSTEM.

SOME LONDON VIEWS. (fbom our own corbebpondent.) LONDON, September 7. The Devon and Exeter Gazetto has been making enquiries relative to -the agitation in New Zealand against, the' o.o.o.'system which is employed by some British firms in their business with the Dominion. The manager of one of the largest firms in London said that although he supplied New Zealanders with goods, his business with that Dominion was so small that it was pot worth carrying on. On an average, his firm sent six parcels a week to New-Zealand on the cash on delivery system. He knew of no firms which covered New Zealand with mailed catalogues. He expressed the opinion that' it did not pay English firms. to deal with New Zealand on that system of trade. Catalogues were, supplied to people living in New Zealand only when they were requested. . The maAager of another firm said that x the New Zealand objection corresponded with the,view that was held in England when the cash on delivery system was first introduced ,as an internal system. It was said then that it would be detrimental to small traders'; in the country, but actually it had been proved that it played a very small part in the business of largo firms. With his own firm business on the. cash on delivery basis was highest for the first week or two, when the system was novel, but since then it had gone down increasingly. This system of selling added considerably to the price of small articles.