Captain TERRELLasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that, owing to the high postal rates for parcels, private firms are organising their own deliveries at a saving of, approximately, 30 per cent.; and what steps he proposes to take to recover this revenue for the Department?
§ Mr. KELLAWAYI should be glad if I could make the parcel post more attractive to traders generally, but as I explained in an answer to the hon. Member for Exeter (Sir R. Newman) on the 2nd of May, the parcel post rates are not remunerative, and I cannot see my way to reduce them at present.