Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — British Postal Roforms. [ARTICLE]

British Postal Roforms.

Among the new century reforms which the postal authorities are credited with having under consideration is the adoption of the system known for many years in India as the “valuepayable” parcel post Under this scheme, for a very small commission, the postoffice delivers parcels, collects the value of the article and transmits it to the sender of the parcel. During the last year 2,500,000 parcels were thus carried by the Indian postoffice, the commission realizing £34,000. The Indian postoffice has a similar system of paying money-orders, the whole operation occupying no more time than it at present takes in delivering a registered letter and obtaining the addressee’s receipt for it, says the London Express. This system is also under discussion at the general postoffice. The number of letters, parcels, money orders, etc., carried by the Indian postofflce last year was 520,000,000. The number of complaints, was infinitesimal, and practically the whole of the work is done by natives. There should be little difficulty, therefore, in introducing these eminently desirable reforms in the English system.