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 the public, especially tradesmen, in India, Germany, and other countries. Fourteen million journeys to the post offices would be saved every year. How much better it would be for one postman to deliver two hundred Money Orders than for two hundred. individuals to walk to the post offices to get the money. The German system, too, is a guarantee that the money is safely delivered to the right person, while thousands of hours of valuable time are saved to the people.

A Manchester merchant begs:

That the mandat-carte system so successful and profitable on the Continent shall be brought into operation in this country—the money being delivered with the mandat at the payee's residence.

This is absurd. If a man is too important to go to a post office for his money, let him send a clerk. They may be bold enough to trust to the letter-carrier's honesty in Germany and elsewhere; we shall not be so foolhardy. But do not, of course, refer to the second reason.

Another complainant requires that the charges on inland telegraph Money Orders should be reduced and the money sent with the order to the residence of the receiver as in Switzerland. A prominent Member of Parliament writes that he sent 1s. 1d. for a magazine, and he had to pay 1s. 5d. for the telegram in addition.

Say this must have been an emergency which could not often recur.

Here are nearly a hundred letters from people who complain that we will not redirect their correspondence because they were living in boarding-