A correspondent, who wishes to be satisfied on an argument
in favour of the recent change in the Sunday labour of the Post-office, asks whether there is any necessary connexion between the small increase of duty in London and the larger decrease in the Country, besides contemporaneity ? There is; and the effect was anticipated in Mr. Rowland Hill's minute of the 9d February. The arrest of letters passing through London caused a blank day in Country places, as to the despatch of letters on Saturday and as to the receipt on Monday; but as a blank day is always preceded and followed by an increase of correspondence, the arrangement threw a larger amount of letter-receiving and letter-writing upon Sunday. This Sunday work the new regulation tends to diminish, not only by abolishing to some extent the blank day, but also by concentrating in the London office work done in many local offices: it has thus become possible to reduce the Sunday deliveries of the Country to one in the day.
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