§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, as letters posted in the ordinary way in registered envelopes cost the sender three pence and the receiver a penalty of four pence, he will consider the advisability of having a notice printed on the official registered envelopes to warn the public that if such letters are posted in the ordinary way without a receipt being obtained, the receiver will be charged a penalty of four pence?
§ MR. HANBURYThe official registered envelopes already bear a printed notice to the effect that they must be handed to an officer of the Post Office and a receipt obtained. The Postmaster General does not think it necessary to add anything further to the warning. In the case described by the hon. Member the charge made on delivery is two pence, not four pence, namely—the difference already paid and the penalty of four pence.