The Daily Express, which is to be heartily congratulated upon
the good work which it has done in its recent articles on our bloated official expenditure, in the course of some very pertinent comments on the Report, makes the following comments on the way in which the Post Office is proving, by practical example, that " the more you pay, the less we give you."
" It is stagnating all over the country. London has suffered severely, but the provinces have fallen under what amounts to a postal blight. The postal service provides, in fact, a striking object-lesson of the way in which vast increase in expenditure and greatly decreased efficiency go hand in hand. The estimates rose from £30,625,000 in 1913-14 to £53,000,00 in 1920-21. They have reached this year the colossal total of £67,165,287. increase ncrease from 1913-14 to the present year represents nearly 125 per cent. Every one, from the millionaire to the man in the street, pays through the nose."
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