§ COLONEL PILKINGTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, in consideration of the increasing number of parcels carried by the Post Office, the Postmaster General will inaugurate some simple system of giving receipts for all parcels deposited at post offices for delivery.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINCertificates of posting, prepared by the county officers, are already given for all parcels on which a special fee is paid for registration, and in the case of unregistered parcels anyone bringing a parcel to post can obtain a certificate of posting if he will fill up one of the forms provided for the purpose, and present it to the counter clerk. To give a certificate for every unregistered parcel, whether required or not, would involve considerable labour, and the Postmaster General does not think that the circumstances are such as to call for a modification of the present practice, which is advertised in paragraph 8, p. 8 of the Post Office Guide.