§ 83. Sir PHILIP DAWSONasked the Postmaster-General why in the past the Post Office have refrained from issuing special air-mail stamps, as is done by practically every other country; and whether, with a view to popularising Imperial Airways, he will consider doing so?
§ The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Sir Kingsley Wood)It is the fixed policy of the Post Office not to issue special stamps save in the most exceptional circumstances. The only useful purpose to be served by an air-mail stamp would be to indicate that a letter is intended for transmission by air; but as in practice it would be impossible either to insist on the use of air-mail stamps to prepay air-mail letters, or to prevent their use on ordinary letters, this purpose could not be attained. The blue air-mail label, Which is prescribed by the International Air-Mail Convention, and can be obtained free of charge at any Post Office already, I would suggest provides a clear and satisfactory means of marking airmail letters.