§ MR. CROOKS (Woolwich)To ask the Postmaster-General whether the rule is still in force which allows postmen's duties being made up to occupy seven and a-half hours so as to allow for prolonged deliveries.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) There is no such rule: and, so far as I am aware, there never has been. Forty-eight hours a week is the normal attendance for town postmen: but, on a revision, the duties are usually arranged so as to occupy somewhat less than that time, in order to allow for general increase of work.