asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs why receipts for payments in respect of telephone accounts are issued without office stamps or other distinguishing marks to assure subscribers that the receipts are authentic.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Telephone Account Receipts.
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All receipts for payments in respect of telephone accounts contain a space for the stamp of the office of payment and receipts are normally stamped in that space.
If I produce for the Minister a receipt which was given to me and which bears nothing except some indecipherable scrawl or whirligig, will he have the stamp to which he refers properly impressed on it so that I can be assured that my payment was received in the proper quarter?
I thought the Deputy was unaware, when he asked the question, that on the accounts issued there is a place for this impression.
A receipt has been issued which does not bear any official stamp on it. There is some whirligig on it which could have been put there by a child of three. There is no indication whatsoever to the person who made the payment that the money has been received in the Post Office because the official stamp does not appear on the official receipt.
It can happen that, by inadvertence, the official who accepted that payment did not stamp it but there is a place for the stamp.