. In the House of Commons on Thursday, March 18th,
the Prime Minister made the welcome announcement of a . new inland cash on delivery parcel-post service. For many years we have advocated this innovation partienlarly in the interests of the small agricultural producer. It ought to be an unqualified blessing for the small agriculturist to be able to cut out the middleman—not that we con- demn middlemen out of hand, for it is obvious that they could not survive if their services were unneeded—and to send his agricultural produce direct.from the land to the consumer. The new service will begin on Monday, March 29th. If the good points of the existing C.0:13. service to many parts of the British Empire and to " foreign countries are reproduced in the new inland service there ought to be a fresh source of revenue for the Post Office.
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