§ MR. M'GHEE (Louth, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether he is aware that the English and Scotch mails addressed to persons living outside the boundary of the town of Lurgan, but within easy distance of the town, are not delivered to the addresses before the day after their arrival at Lurgan; and whether, considering the serious inconvenience caused thereby, and the fact that, as a rule, these mails reach Lurgan before 9 o'clock every morning, he will make inquiry into the matter with the view of having them delivered on the day of their arrival at Lurgan?
§ MR. HANBURYThe places referred to have only one delivery a day. A second post for the sake of the English and Scotch letters would not be warranted, and to keep back the postmen for the arrival of those letters would, it is believed, give rise to much complaint. But if the honourable Member will specify any place near Lurgan where the inhabitants generally desire a later morning delivery to include the English and Scotch letters, the matter shall be inquired into. Any application for a second post would, of course, also receive consideration.