SIXPENNY TELEGRAMS.
go THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1
SIR,—In your article of last weekupon " Sixpenny Telegrams" you condemn the Government proposal to charge for the address of the recipient on the ground, not that it will be disadvantageous to the telegraphing public, but that it will be expensive to the Post Office. The Post Office, you think, will lose more through the increased difficulty of delivering telegrams, and the consequent waste of its messengers' time, than it will gain by the relief from telegraphing superfluous words. Upon such a question as this, a fact is worth a good deal of argument and speculation. Now, not only does every foreign State charge for every word in both addresses, but the same rule is followed by every private compan'y which conducts international telegraphy. If to allow a free hand in addresses is in the end true economy, would not the discovery have been made ere this by the able administrators of the French and German Post Offices and the astute Directors of the Cable Companies P—I am, Sir, &c., X.
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