HC Deb 25 June 1924 vol 175 cc460-1W
Sir H. BRITTAIN

asked the Postmaster-General whether he will set up a Committee of this House to consider the advisability of adopting the scheme of postal reform recently put forward whereby postal correspondence would be reclassified as ordinary and deferred, the former being postable and delivered as now, the latter postable during banking hours only and excluded from the first delivery?

Mr. KENNEDY

After careful consideration of the scheme to which the hon. Member refers, my right hon. Friend has come to the conclusion that the practical difficulties to which it would give rise, and the curtailment of public facilities which it would involve, make it un- suitable for adoption. My right hon. Friend does not think that any useful purpose would be served by setting up a Committee to examine the scheme in detail.