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Office Orders and Parcels Post followed in rapid suc- 

 cession and many other up-to-date facilities were 

 introduced by Mr. Bulmer, who tried for others, such 

 as the introduction of the Island and British Postal 

 Orders, the Cash-on-delivery System for parcels from 

 the United Kingdom, the payment of customs duty 

 and other charges on parcels from the United King- 

 dom, which enables the sender to forward a present 

 to the addressee entirely free of all charges. But in 

 this he was unsuccessful. Since then these and other 

 conveniences have been obtained, amongst them re- 

 ply coupons which can be exchanged for stamps to 

 the value of 25 centimes (2%d.) each, in any country 

 participating in this arrangement. For the informa- 

 tion of those who may not understand this, I give an 

 explanation of the benefit to be derived from it. Sup- 

 posing you write to some person in France or Ger- 

 many for some information which you can scarcely 

 expect them to go to the expense of a 25 centimes 

 stamp to send to you, you get a coupon and forward 

 it which they can exchange for the necessary stamps. 

 Then we have the advice payment of money orders on 

 Europe or India ; the extension of all money orders 

 to £40 instead of £10 as was formerly the case ; the 

 reduction of the rates of postage and the increase of 

 the weight of letters ; the parcel post with Canada 

 and the introduction of a direct money-order system 

 with Colon, which is of great benefit to the people of 

 this colony who have relatives there. 



This long list of additions since Mr. Bulmer 's 

 retirement has been introduced by the present Post- 



