Foreigners living outside the British Settlement are having trouble with the Imperial Post Office. This office refuses any longer to forward foreign mail n.atter free of charge as it has been doing for the last few years.
All mail matter from abroad has to ye restamped before it can be forwarded. Some of the poor sufferers at Kuling have had to pay a tax of twenty cents per let ter because their mails were not previously stamped at these extra rates. One's first idea was that the four cent postage from England had made the difference, but the other day a letter was returned that had the usual twopence-halfpenny stamp.
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