To the Editor of the "Norrm-Cumwa Datty News."
S8m,—When the Chinese Imperial Pust was first established here our firet post and a fairerminded gentler never born in Ireland—remark "The public think there is a lot of ridiculous regulations in our post office, but if they knew as much about it ax T do they would know there is more." 'There is no denying he rear benefit which this institution has conferred "n China, and on the foreign residenta in' particular. Bub why so many ridiculous regulations, and why should there always be more One specially arsnoying one, now of some time sanding, is the practice of charging 12 cents on all British and American reduced rate letters which ate reposted in the I. P. 0. for delivery in the interior. One would naturally conclude that double thei P. 0. charge—2 cents—was all that could he justly claimed, but, lusterd of that, twice the difference between the British or American reduced rate and union rate of foreign postage is demanded, namely, British rate 1d=4 cents, union
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