§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether express letters, both those of inland origin and those coming from England (and posted on Saturday night here) are delivered on Sunday in Paris, and over a great part of France; whether telegrams are delivered on Sunday by the British Post Office; and whether, as telegraphic transmission is unsuited to certain classes of urgent communications, such as prescriptions, and to parcels, he will take measures for instituting an express service for all postal packets on Sunday in this country, or at least for those letters arriving from abroad?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. A. MORLEY,) Nottingham, E.As I informed the hon. Member by letter (5th ultimo), express letters are understood to be delivered in Paris and in France generally on Sunday up to 6 p.m. In this country express letters are delivered in the Provinces on Sunday only during the hours in which post offices are open for telegraph business, and in London there is no express delivery at all. It is not proposed to make any extension of the service in this respect, there being no evidence of any desire on the part of public for such an addition to the Sunday work of the Post Office. The delivery of telegrams during certain hours is believed to be sufficient to meet the present requirements of the public.