THE POST OFFICE AND FACILITIES FOR GAMBLING.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—It seems to me very strange that while on one hand Government strongly discourages gambling, as is shown by its recent enactments as to ready-money and street betting, yet on the other hand it positively encourages it, and that at the expense of the British taxpayer. I am alluding to the special facilities given to it as regards the use of the Post Office telegraph. It is notorious that although the Post Office as a whole is a paying business, yet the telegraphic department is carried on at a very considerable loss. A special staff of telegraphic operators is maintained to work temporary offices which are established on various race- courses all over the country whilst their meetings are being held. If the Post Office does not see its way to discontinue this service, surely the public are entitled to demand that it should not be done at their expense, and I would suggest that the users of this special convenience should be required to pay a double fee to that demanded at the regular post-offices.
—I am, Sir, &c., HUGH L. P. Lows. Blagdon, House, Stoke Bishop.
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