Sir Robert -Home then announced a every welcome rednetien of
the excessive postal rates, which Mr. Kellaway was ill-advised' enough to increase last year to the grave disadvantage of the community without benefiting the revenue. Sunday collections but not deliveries would be restored. Postcards would go for a ,penny, instead of three4aalfpence.'.Printed papers up to an ounce wouldgofer a halfpenny instead of a penny, so that it will no longer be cheaper to send them abroad in bulk tn be-posted home than ito post them here. The minimum letter postage would be three4:alfpence instead of twopence. 'Telephone charges would be reduced. These changes, to be effected this month, would reduce the revenue by £6,550;000 and add £200,000 to the expenditure. That, we may interject, is the official way of putting it. Sir Rowland Hill discovered eighty years ago that lower postal rates mean a Jarger revenue, but his successors apparently know nothing of him.
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