§ Mr. HENNIKER HEATONasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that now that we have 1d. postage for letters from Great Britain and Ireland to every part of the British Empire, to the United States of America, to Egypt, and to Shanghai, Tientsin, and other treaty ports of China, complaints are made that postcards are also charged 1d. each to these places; whether he can give, approximately, the total number of letters and the total number of postcards sent annually to the parts of the world enjoying 1d. postage; and what would be the loss to the British Post Office if postcards were sent at a ½d. each to every part of the Empire and every country named above?
§ Mr. BUXTONI do not see my way to reduce the charge on postcards for the places mentioned; and, as I informed my hon. Friend a year ago, I have no means of forming a trustworthy estimate of the total number or the total loss which would be entailed by the introduction of a ½d. rate for such cards.