§ MR. HENRY J. WILSON (York, W.R., Holmfirth)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he is aware that advertisements constantly appear in sporting and other newspapers, inviting communications under fictitious or assumed names at Post Offices; whether he is aware that some Post Offices do not return to the writers letters so addressed; and, whether, inasmuch as 597 the Postal Guide states that letters so addressed will be returned, he will put the regulation in force?
§ SIR H. MAXWELLThe rule is that letters addressed to initials, or to fictitious names at Post Offices, are not to be taken in, but are to be sent at once to the Returned Letter Offices for return to the writers, if possible. I am not aware that the rule is not adhered to in such cases as the hon. Member refers to. But if he will give me particulars of any case which has come under his notice, I will have it inquired into.