§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Postmaster-General if he will state the reason why letters posted at Aberdeen, addressed to Blackburn, are often delayed a day, having first been sent to a small hamlet in Aberdeenshire, which has not even a post office, instead of to Blackburn, Lancashire; and will he ask the postmaster at Aberdeen to place a notice in the sorting room there that all letters addressed Blackburn without any distinction be sent with the English mail?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELI am not aware that letters posted at Aberdeen addressed "Blackburn" are often delayed in the manner stated. In accordance with a well-known and general rule, such a letter should be sent to Blackburn, Lancashire (the only post-town of that name in the United Kingdom), unless indeed it happened to be known that it was intended for a resident in Blackburn, Aberdeenshire.