“WINDOW” ENVELOPES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 199, 8 August 1923, Page 2

“WINDOW” ENVELOPES.

REFUSED IN AUSTRALIA. CORRESPONDENCE HELD UP. Attention was called hv Mr. Leigh Hunt at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to the trouble which is being unnecessarily caused by the use oft window envelopes, both where the window is gummed inside the envelope and where the window forms Dart of the envelope, and which is resulting in th© holding up of correspondence. and in many cases the return of the missive to the sender. This particularly applied to the Australian States, which will not accept either variety, says Mr. Fl W. Penlington, acting-postmaster, who quoted the regulation dealing with the matter. This says that for transmission beyond New Zealand, except the United Kingdom and the United States, the panel must form an integral part of the cover, but for inland, the United Kingdom and the United States a gumniedin window may bo used. Where the address is not legible such letters will not be forwarded beyond New Zealand. It often happens that the addresses can only be seen very faintly, or that the enclosure does not bring the address directly against the window, and the postal authorities have some difficulty in making out the address, with the result that communications are sometimes delayed thereby.