New Postage Stamps
S1R,—During the first week in May we were all startled to find that our postage stamps had been entirely rearranged. Those of your readers who asked the postal clerks for an explanation of so confusing a change may have been told, as 1 WU, that Great Britain, under an international agreement, was being brought into line with other countries. If I send postcards abroad, they cost 2id., and I can use red, brown, green, blue or orange stamps. Recently I have had postcards from France and the United States. Both the French ones bear two stamps, one petunia and one turquoise, shades outside the present range, I believe, of our own Post Office. The American ones bear a mauve stamp, in colour not far from our threepenny. Letters from abroad, whether by ordinary or air mail, carry stamps similarly unreconcilable with British rates and colours. What has happened to that international agreement under whose banner we were conscribed? Or can we say proudly once again, as so often before, that only England is in step?—Faithfully yours, The Grange, Yattendon, Nt. Newbury. ARNOLD PALMER.
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