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These disadvantages and difficulties could be avoided by the legislation proposed and the sending out of a simple notification - not requiring a reply of the Budgetary increases to every subscriber in uniform terms unrelated to the provisions of his particular agreement.
6. Legislation is in any case required to absolve the Hull Corporation from payment of the present surcharges to the Postmaster General as is required under the 1940 Act, and to allow the new charges to be retained in full by the Corporation. The Corporation have been informed that this will be done.
7. I hope that my colleagues will agree that the Bill should proceed. In that case it is important that the notification referred to above should go out well before the end of June in order that no subscriber can complain that he has had shorter notification (in general terms) than the period of legal notice he is entitled to under his agreement in many cases this is three months. I shall be glad to receive authority for its distribution as soon as the Bill has received its Second Reading in the Commons.
'General Post Office, E. C. 1.
17TH MAY, 1949.
W. P.
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