When " Post Office accepts a letter on which the postage has been duly paid; it ought to forward and deliver the same to the addressee free of all further charge. But this the Shanghai LP. O, never does, Beforeitsletters can be received in the outports and interior there are many and often heavy charges to be paid on them by the resi there, such as subscriptions to local institutions to take charge and distribute then, or to native letter hongs; payments to steamer boatmen for every packet landed, lor to special coolies, exrtiers, ete. These payments may vary in every place, but the broad fact romaine that the Shanghai L.P.O, mail is forwarded and distributed at the outports and interior at the expense of the residents there, and free of all charge to it; hence it is not unreasonable to dains that it in turn should forward or distribute on port and yr mails in Shanghai also free of charge. Further, the justice of (1 is fully admitted in the cxso of ports which have formally established L.P.0.'s of their own. With these Shan; hai carries on intercourse on the basis of free exchange of correspondence, One would really' like to know how a claim which is seen to be perfectly fair when iced on behalf of a large outport con munity, becomes 'a very singular conten-when put forward by a small one.
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