More Post Office Shortcomings SIR, —May I draw your attention to
a new Post Office imposition ? On receipt of my telephone account for the six months ending December 31st last, I asked for details for some of the trunk calls for which I had been charged. These were duly supplied, but enclosed was a printed slip (bearing a Stationery Office number, so presumably it is in general use) informing me that " if similar details are required in future it will be necessary to make a ch4rge of 4d. (plus surcharge) for every 25 entries or less per month."
It is surely an elementary right of every person to know for what he is paying, and in default of such information to withhold payment. If a business firm adopted the attitude now taken by the Post Office, it would soon lose its customers. Because the Post Office is a State monopoly it can keep its customers waiting for six months before rendering an account, and now proposes to make an additional charge to those who have the effrontery to wish to know for what they are being charged. What a racket !—Yours faithfully), .- CLARE MANSE[.. Holm Place, Windlesham, Surrey.
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