Stamps On Mail

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30130, 14 May 1963, Page 9

Stamps On Mail

Sir, —No doubt the chief postmaster is keen to rake in every 3d he can, but the point arises: in putting a letter in the box at the post office (when the post office is the point of delivery) the

sender is, in fact, making the delivery himself. If I put this letter in the box outside “The Press’’ office then I would be silly to put a stamp on it. Does not this apply to the post office itself, particularly when I may be making a payment to the postmaster? —Yours, etc., E.A.CJI. May 10, 1963. [The Chief Postmaster (Mr C. J. C. Simpson) said: “Letters posted in any posting aperture, whether at a post office or in a street postingbox, required handling several times in the sorting and distributing process. The postage paid is to cover the cost of this handling. As letter box at ‘The Press,’ office is not a post office box, naturally postage is not required on articles placed therein. Accounts may, of course, be paid in person at any post office.”]