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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
24 December 1902.
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The proposals of Sir Robert Hart as regards postal relations
with China, communicated in your letter of the 17th of November,
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No. 46,876, have been carefully considered by the Postmaster
General, who directs me to observe that the main proposal the
establishment of penny postage in both directions between the
Chinese Empire on the one hand and the United Kingdom and all
other parts of the British Empire on the other places him in a
position of some embarrassment. In effect it raises the large
question whether the time has yet arrived for expanding the
scheme of Penny Postage within the Empire into a scheme of
Universal Penny Postage. For it is manifest that if it becomes
possible for people in this country to send letters to any part
of China at the penny rate, there will at once arise a demand
for the same rate to other, and less distant, foreign countries.
7 then
If to Pekin, it will be argued, than a fortiori to Paris.
Unless that demand can be withstood the establishment of
Universal Penny Postage will be inevitable.
der Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
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