19 OCTOBER 1951, Page 18

The New Stamps

SIR,—Mr. Pearson, like Sunbury, shows astonishing confidence in his doctors. It happens that two letters reached me the other day, by ordinary than from overseas. One, from Eire, bears a single stamp, 21d. in value and brown in colour. The other, from. France, bears twin blue stamps, suggesting that it cost the sender either twopence or eightpence. How do these examples help us " to avoid confusion " ? It still seems to me that the British public—so hard, so -fit, so perfectly trained already— has been made to jump through an extra and superfluous hoop. That sort of thing turns the animal sour.—Faithfully yours,

The Grange. Yatlendon, nr. Newbury. ARNOLD PALMER.