Interference With Mail
Sir, —Within the last two weeks two letters addressed to me from Australia have been opened during transit and gummed down. Presumably the letters were opened by the Post Office, but no indication is given on the envelope as to who interfered with them. Can you say whether the Post Office is authorised to open them? If it is, should not some indication be placed on the letter to authorise or explain such action?—Yours, etc., NO TAMPERING.
August 28, 1967. [The Chief Postmaster (Mr M. E. Wilson) replies: “There is no possibility of the letters having been opened by the Post Office and it very often happens when a sender has, where the gum on an envelope is unsatisfactory, regummed the article before posting. I would be pleased to have the envelopes submitted to me for examination.”]
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31462, 31 August 1967, Page 10
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