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 houses or lodgings. They are a lot of people mostly without votes, and of no importance, and we therefore do not see why we should give them the facilities they desire. I have drawn up and printed a letter to answer all such complaints as the one I will read, which is from some medical man:

—I have moved to —— in the same postal district. As my private address has, unfortunately, got on to the Parliamentary register, people will direct letters to my old address, and I am quite helpless to prevent their doing so. This involves delay, and sometimes very Serious inconvenience.

Would you oblige me by drawing the attention of the Postmaster-General to the grievance, and ask that lodgers may be placed on the same footing as householders.

Inform the correspondent civilly that his request cannot be granted.

Here are numerous letters from persons complaining that their cross-country posts are deplorably deficient, and arranged so badly that the "Times" or "Daily Mail" reaches Paris before it gets to their homes in Dorchester and other places.

Send the usual official answers. They must live in some place where our mailing arrangements will be more satisfactory to them.

Some fussy man writes:

—I enclose a prospectus just issued for a motor mail coach company, in which it is stated that each motor mail coach will produce a profit of £350 per