Good Questions: Roses are yellow, violets aren't blue

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 14, 1994| Author: WILLIAM HARTSTON | Copyright information

WE BEGIN in appropriately topical manner by bringing the romance of St Valentine's Day into perspective. Several inquiries have posed what boil down to two essential questions:

Why is the sending of Valentine's cards not prohibited under the same legislation that criminalises poison-pen letters and other anonymous and threatening postal communications?

Section 11 of the Post Office Act 1953 prohibits the sending of "a postal packet which encloses any indecent or obscene written c...

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