MONOPOLY OF MAILS
POST OFFICE PRIVILEGE. ENFORCEMENT SUGGESTED. (iSy —HTtiss A&socißtloii-j WELLINGTON, March 5. From the nature of some of the private mail delivery schemes that have been suggested since the increased postage rates were announced it is obvious many people do not know that the handling of most classes of mail matter is a monopoly of the post ' office Of course a letter can be delivered for a firm by a servant or a messenger specially employed for the purpose, but with few exceptions, such as parcels or newspapers, the only legal intermediary for the carriage and delivery of correspondence is the post office. The post office would protect its monopoly, declared the second assistant secretary to the post office, Mr W. J. Cow, when his attention was drawn to a proposal to establish a private delivery service. The post office, he said, had a monopoly for the delivery of letters, postcards, letter cards and commercial papers, which included accounts, patterns or sample packets. The monopoly did not apply to parcels and newspapers.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 March 1931, Page 5
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174MONOPOLY OF MAILS Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 March 1931, Page 5
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