he increased cost of
dealing with increased quantities of postal matter be taken into
account, as it should be, the department has not recovered, and cannot
recover, the loss of net postal revenue involved by the reduction of the
Imperial letter rate, which was estimated in 1898 at [L]108,000 for the
first year.

"Recent calculations show that, in the case of a letter for a foreign
country, the expense to the Exchequer can be taken at about one penny
per half-ounce rate, and in the case of a letter for a Colony, where a
long sea transit is generally involved, at about a penny farthing,
excluding the heavy cost of subsidized packet service."--_Papers laid
before the Colonial Conference, 1907: Memorandum by General Post Office_
(Cd. 3524), p. 499. It was estimated that the introduction of universal
penny postage, together with the ounce unit (_vide supra_), would
involve an initial loss of [L]610,000 a year. Ibid., p. 500.

[598] The United States, Australasia, and Egypt voted in favour of the
universal penny rate. Canada, Great Britain, British India, and Japan
abstained from voting. The remainder voted against the
proposal.--_Documents du Congr[e']s postal de Rome_, 1906, vol. ii., p.
181.

[599] "Chaque jour de nouvelles difficult['e]s surgissent, soit dans les
rapports du public avec les Administrations, soit dans les rapports
entre les Administrations, sur la definition de l'['e]chantillon. Tel
objet est admis dans un pays et refus['e] dans un autre. Ici, on
repousse un article sans valeur, uniquement parce qu'il est entier et on
en exige la d['e]t['e]rioration ou lac['e]ration; l[a'], au contraire,
ce m[^e]me article passe sans observation, par la raison qu'il n'est
suj'et [a'] aucun droit de douane. Cette derni[e']re doctrine paraissant
la plus logique et la plus conforms [a'] l'esprit lib['e]ral de l'Union,
qui ne saurait refuser au commerce des facilit['e]s compatibles avec les
exigences du service, on a pens['e] que, sous la double r['e]serve d'une
limite de poids de 300 grammes et de la prohibition des articles sujets
aux droits de douane, il y aurait un simplification, profitable [a']
tout le monde, [a'] ['e]tendre la qualification d'['e]chantillons aux
menus objets, m[^e]me entiers et non d['e]t['e]rior['e]s."--See M. E.
Ruffy, _L'Union postale universelle: sa fondation et son
d['e]veloppement_, Lausanne, 1900, p. 67.

[600] "La proposition d'['e]lever le poids des paquets de 3 [a'] 5
kilogrammes modifie