§ 55. Mr. John Smithasked the Postmaster-General why he has discriminated against small firms by closing their overseas telegram accounts and denying them the service of Post Office messengers, unless they spend more than £150 per annum on overseas telegrams.
§ Mr. Joseph SlaterIt is not economic to provide special telegraph accounts and collection facilities for relatively small users of the overseas telegraph service. Nevertheless, a firm, whose traffic does not justify keeping one of these accounts, may still send in its overseas telegrams by telephone or telex and have the charges included in its telephone or telex bill. Indeed, the majority of business telegrams are sent in by these means and there is no charge for the calls.