POST OFFICE MONOPOLY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 5

POST OFFICE MONOPOLY

DELIVERY, OF MAIL MATTER | THE LEGAL ASPECT STATEp | WELLINGTON, March 5. j Fwrai the: nature of some private] mail 'delivery-, schemes that have been j (suggested since 'be increased postage sates were-announced, it is obvious that many peoplel. flo not know that the handling of letters of most classes of maU.mat-ter is a monopoly of the Post Office. Of course a letter can be delivered for a firm, by a servant or a messenger spe'cially employed for the purpose, but with few exception?, such aa parcels or newspapers, the only legal intermediary'for the carrying and delivery., of. cpriespondence is the Post Office. ' • The Post Office will protect its monopoly, declared the second assistantsecretary to the Post Office, Mr W. J. Gow, when his attention was drawn to the proposal to establish a private dolivery service. The Post Office, lie 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 r not apply to parcels or <oawspapors r , ,_ L _