§ Mr. Websterasked the Postmaster-General whether all Post Office envelopes are in conformity with the new regulations as to size.
§ Mr. Joseph Slater:As my right hon. Friend told the House on 13th December, 1967, in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Middleton and Prestwich (Mr. Coe) he expects to introduce the surcharge on minimum rate letters and printed papers which do not conform to the preferred range of sizes in the autumn of this year.
All envelopes used by the Post Office for general correspondence will be within the Post Office preferred range by the summer of this year.
There will always be a need for envelopes larger than the Post Office preferred range to transmit bulky items of correspondence.—[Vol. 756, c. 183–4.]