28 OCTOBER 1922, Page 15

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I fully share the

views of your correspondents in regard to postage to Switzerland. I spent several weeks near Laus- anne in the summer, and the excess postage which I had to pay on letters from England was an appreciable item in the debours of my bill. One case was certainly amusing. I had occasion to write to a Surrey post office, and the post- master sent his acknowledgment in an envelope with the superscription, " On His Majesty's Service," and stamped " Official." For this I had to pay eighty centimes. I wrote to the aforesaid postmaster when I returned to England, calling his attention to the incident and telling him he need not trouble to remit the 8d. He did not even send me a postcard of thanks am, Sir, &el S.