§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)To ask the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the carelessness in the post offices of the United Kingdom in affixing post-marks which are often illegible on letters; and, if so, what action he is taking to remedy the alleged grievance of the public in this respect.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) Attention has frequently been called to the necessity of care in applying post-marks to letters, and I am fully alive to the importance of the subject. The cover which the hon. Member was so good as to send me appears to have enclosed a bulky letter, and the indistinctness of the post-marks thereon was doubtless due to this fact. The American post-mark on the back is also indistinct from the same cause. However, I am again calling attention to the point.