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A N increasing use of roads for parcel delivery, especially since the experiment in East Anglia has proved a success, was forecast last week by Post Office
Ministers. • It came during a debate in the Commons on the Post Office, a debate marked by some blunt speaking about British Railways by Mr. Reginald Bevins, the Postmaster General.
No one was satisfied about the parcels service, least of all himself, said Mr. Bevins, and he believed that the railways now appreciated that we simply Must have better and swifter service for parcels.
It was left to Mr. Bevins deputy, Mr. Ray Maviby, to fill in more details at the end of the discussion. The Post Office, was now reaching the position where it could measure what sort of advantages there were in using a Scheme like that in East Anglia, he said. It was obvious that throughout the rest of the country certain parts of the scheme would be an advantage.
"I believe that we shall come to a stage at which there will be a marrying of the different forms of transport. In some cases this may mean that the mail travels the long distance by rail, the shorter distances between change-over points in articulated vehicles, and then the short distances by smaller mail vans."