CHEAPER POSTAGE
GOOD EFFECT ON BUSINESS. " You would be surprised at the difference in our sales since the postage rates were reduced," said a bookseller and stationer to a Dominion reporter on Thursday. "The difference is particularly marked in connection with the posting of New Zealand weekly papers overseas. I suppose my sales of such papers have increased at least 25 per cent since the postage went down, and people who used to send papers to England and America who stopped when the postage went up, have resumed sending, perhaps not so often as formerly, but the habit has been resumed. I think it has also had an effect on the sale of writing paper and envelopes. " The raising of the postage 100 per cent as a revenue-raising device irritated quite a lot of people, who got even by curtailing their correspondence," he added. /'Similarly, that measure was hard on commercial firms, who in some cases found it expedient not such fi>e use of the postal service as before."
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3210, 30 July 1932, Page 8
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169CHEAPER POSTAGE Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3210, 30 July 1932, Page 8
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