§ 56. Mr. Linsteadasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why, in a letter to a trade association of which particulars have been sent to him, the Board of Customs include among their reasons for rejecting proposals for reducing the cost of direct mail advertising to export markets, the fact that they would put additional burdens on Post Office 200W services; and, in view of the fact that it is one of the important functions of the Post Office to support measures intended to promote our export trade, what advice he received from that Department on this point.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe letter was written with the object of bringing out the full range of the difficulties inherent in the proposals made by the Association. Considerations of Purchase Tax administration were, in fact, decisive; I understand that the additional burdens on the Post Office might not have been decisive, but they would have been real.