PEOPLE'S ADDRESSES.
, ——♦ —— ■■■ . SHOULD POST OFFICE DISCLOSE THEM? . Tho secretary of this Marton ChamW of Commerce lias, written to the Wellington Chamber as fpllows:— ; "At a meeting of tho' Morton Chamber of.'Commerce it -was resolved that. Mr. Newman, M.P.,|b6 asked to iucjtiire the reasons Why the postal regulations pros hibit the disclosure of addresses of people who havo intimated to the. Post Office ■their: subsequent addresses. Mr. .Non-man replies as follows'l have the: honour to inform you that the regulation in question was made under the authority of tho Post Office Act, olid it is held by the Depart.inent thit as information as to a person's address is acquired by the address on postal packets,- the absolute property of the addressee, it is quite right that information So obtained should not be divulged to any person without the consent of the addressee.'-" The chairman (Mr. A. E. Mabin) at yesterday's meeting of the council of the Chamber of .Commerce, said the Post Office took the attitude that their business, was to deliver, letters, not to divulge, information,' and jh'e thought the Post Office 1 was quite right. They could not turn the Post Office info a detective ■agency. No aotioa was takeii»
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 6
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