OVERSEAS LETTERS
2D PER GENT. POSTED SHORT PAID PUBLIC SLOW TO REALISE HIEW RATES [Special to the • Stae.‘[ WELLINGTON, July 28. The Postmaster-General (the Hon. F. Jones) stated to-day that 20 per cent, of the letters for overseas destinations were being posted at Wellington short paid, apparently due to the failure of the public to realise that the new rates of postage took effect on July 26. A good deal of the correspondence is for the United States of America, to which the new postage rate is 2id. The Minister reiterated that the letter rate to Empire countries (Australia excepted in the meantime) is now lid for each half-ounce, and to foreign countries! 2|d for the first ounce and Ud for each succeeding ounce. Mr Jones added that when letters were unpaid, or short paid, the universal procedure was to tax them double the deficiency, and he suggested that the New Zealand public should make themselves acquainted with the hew rates and so avoid embarrassment to themselves or their correspondents overseas.
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Evening Star, Issue 23021, 28 July 1938, Page 15
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171OVERSEAS LETTERS Evening Star, Issue 23021, 28 July 1938, Page 15
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