WANTED, AN IMPERIAL POST OFFICE.
(To THZ EDITOR OP THE "SPEcteron..")
SIR—You recently alluded to discrepancies in the postal service by which Canada is knit much more closely to the United States than to Britain. I enclose herewith the postal money order demand form in use in Canada, from which you will see that Britain is put on a very unfavourable footing. A Canadian can transmit 220 by money order to the United States, but to Britain he may not send more than 210 by one order. He may send a sovereign to any part of the United States for three-halfpence, but it costs fivepence to send it anywhere in Britain. This is prejudicial to trade relations, to say nothing of the sentiment of Imperial unity. If the Post Office of the United States can co-operate with that of Canada, why cannot the British Post Office come into line ? The Canadian officials are anxious to have Britain put on the same footing as the United States, but the inefficiency and indifference of the British official have hitherto thwarted Canada's desires.—I am, Sir, &c.. CANADIAN SCOT.
[The treatment of Canada by the British Post Office, granted that our correspondent's facts are correct, is inex- plicable. It would appear to be as unsound from the commercial as it is from the Imperial point of view.—En. Spectator.]
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