§ MR. HOYLE (Lancashire, S.E., Heywood)I beg to ask the Postmaster General if the new regulation as to the re-directing of letters applies to letters directed to persons in Great Britain who have gone abroad for temporary purposes; and if a letter not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight can be forwarded to the Continent or other country in the Postal Union by adding to the cancelled penny stamp a stamp 692 for three halfpence, or whether the full rate of twopence halfpenny will be required in addition to the penny stamp cancelled?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.The new regulations do not affect any letters re-directed abroad. In the case which the hon. Member puts of an inland letter not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight and bearing a penny stamp, the additional charge on re-direction to a country in the Postal Union has long been, and will still be, three halfpence, that is the difference between the foreign and the inland rate.