POST-OFFICE TREATMENT OF NEWSPAPERS.
TO THE EDITOR, OF TIIE SPECTATOR.
No.(1, Prospect Cottage:. Barn:Wry Park, Islington, 30th September 1933.
Snt—I am sorry to say that pus Northampton correspondent is nut the only one of your subscribers who has to complain of similar official malversations in forwarding the Spectator. Occ:Nionally, I have had to send your paper to relatives in the country ; and three instances have occurred to me, within a short period, where it has not been delivered ; two of them, likewise, via Bias Oct. Le the first instance, 1 recovered my paper, after making- considerable stir and wast- ing much time. I could not alllird the time in the second instance, and time- line purehi-eil another copy. The third instance I traced to the Brighton Post- man, not Postmaster. Now all this is very annoying, especially to ores who have taken the Spec- tabor from the beginning, and send it regularly to a relative in the faired States, whose groat solace it is in his absence from his native country. I have therefore deemed it a sort of duty 011 in pas t, to make you acquainted with what has happened to myself, and I think any other of your friends would do well to mention similar cases to you ; for I believe the extent of the grievance is greater than is imagined ; and it may render some parties. now supine, more desirous of endeavouring to get rid of it. For your individual exertions to abate or rid us of this and many other nuisances, I, as one of the public, beg to tender you my cordial thanks. Until the evil I more particularly complain of is put a stop to, I shall send my paper to the interior by other communications than the Post-Office, inconvenient as that may often be ; for I cannot and will not sub- mit any longer to the endless tracasseries and vexations occasioned by the official
malpractices alluded to. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, —.
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