§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the property of the Postmaster General in a letter is an absolute property, or whether it is a qualified property subject to an obligation to deliver the letter according to the wish of the sender, as expressed in the written direction; whether there is anything in the Act quoted which deprives the sender of the power of amending or revoking such written direction; and whether the sender of a valuable parcel by parcel post has the right of stoppage in transitu which is so 1145 frequently exercised by the senders of goods conveyed by an agent?
§ MR. A. MORLEYThe property of the Postmaster General in a letter is subject to the obligation to deliver it to the person to whom it is addressed (in accordance with the Post Office Acts and Regulations), and failing such delivery to return it to the sender. There is no legal power in the sender to amend or revoke the address upon a letter unless the letter cannot be delivered at that address. A valuable parcel sent by parcel post is in precisely the same position legally as a letter, and the sender has no power to stop it in transitu.