§ MR. BRODRICKasked the Postmaster General, Whether, in view of the fact that a letter-box is attached to the Post Office carriage on mail trains, and is available at the station of departure as well as at all stations at which the trains stop on week days, and is not available at the station of departure on Sundays, although open at all other stations, he will endeavour to accommodate those of the Metropolitan public who are thus excluded, and who are willing to pay the extra fee?
§ MR. FAWCETTThe possibility of affording to the Metropolitan public the same opportunity which now exists elsewhere of posting letters in mail trains on Sundays as well as on week days, to which the hon. Member refers, has been considered; and, as I believe it will be possible to give the accommodation without any appreciable increase of Sunday labour, I may state that on and after Sunday next letters can be posted at the London railway stations by the mail trains on the payment of a late fee, in the same way as on week days. I think it will be well that the plan shall, in the first instance, be worked experimentally; because, if it should lead to any inconvenient increase in the work which has to be done in the travelling post offices, the subject will have to be reconsidered.