Note 29 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
“Newspapers and book packets liable to detention if posted in pillar boxes within three miles of St. Martin’s-le-Grand.”—Postal Guide. Passim. Why? Let us also ask, does “detention” mean forfeiture or delay? Such a penalty, whichever it may be, does not, we believe, exist in any other part of the Kingdom with regard to newspapers and book packets posted in pillar boxes.