§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he is aware that much inconvenience is caused by the want of some conspicuous notice of the existence of a post office at each of the numerous shops where postal and telegraphic business is conducted, it being frequently necessary to search on both sides of the street for the zinc-covered letter-box which is the only indication afforded; and whether he will direct that a projecting notice board, painted with the words "Post Office" (and "Telegraph Office" if required) in white letters on a scarlet ground, shall be affixed on every post office so as to be visible to passengers, and that every letter box on a shop front shall be painted scarlet, with the words "Post Office" or "Telegraph Office" in white, so as to be seen from the opposite side of the way?
§ MR. ARNOLD MORLEYI am not aware, nor do the records of the Department show, that much inconvenience is felt through the absence of conspicuous notices to indicate the position of town sub-post offices. In many cases projecting indicators are already in use. To make it compulsory to exhibit such indicators, and to have the letter boxes painted and lettered as suggested, would add to the expense which a sub-postmaster has to incur on taking office, and which, in the absence of any real necessity, I am unwilling to increase.