PARCELS FROM AMERICA
Sta,—A friend in California has sent me a clipping from the Los Angeles Times. It is a letter from Hampton-on-Thames referring to alleged thefts in the British Post Office of parcels and registTred letters from America. Here is one passage: " A parcel carrying a high duty value always yeaches the addressee. But let the parcel contain food or something not subject to duty or purchase tax, and it will leave the British Post Office in the fingers of a thief 75 percent. of the time! In our case six parcels out of seven failed to arrive." A charge of this extraordinary kind should, of course, have been laid before the Postmaster-General in London. Instead, it is sent to a daily paper of large circulation and wide influence in Southern California. The direct experience, I should guess, of many thousands of people in Britain provides a sufficient answer. During the years of scarcity parcels have been addressed to my household from the United States, Canada and Australia. There is not a scrap of evidence to show that one of them has been stolen or tampered with.—Faithfully
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