LETTER DELIVERIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18819, 6 March 1931, Page 13

LETTER DELIVERIES.

A POST OFFICE MONOPOLY. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, March 5. From the nature of some private mail delivery schemes that have been suggested since the increased postage rates were announced, it is obvious that many people do not know that the handling of letters and most classes of mail matter is a monoply 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 carriage and delivery of correspondence is the Post Office. “The Post Office will protect its monopoly,” declared the Second Assistant secretary to the Post Office (Mr W. J. Gow) when his attention was drawn to a proposal to establish a private deliver!/ service. The Post Office, he said had a monopoly for the delivery of letters, postcards, letter cards, and commercial papers, which include accounts, patterns or sample packets. The monopoly did not apply to parcels or newspapers.