PACIFIC MAIL
Sir, —I am prompted to write these few words of appreciation (and hope that they may be published) to the many employees of the P. and T. Department, and others also, v/ho enable us soldiers in the Pacific to get our mail so promptly. We have received letters which were posted in New Zealand on August 10 and delivered here on Friday the 13th, just three days later! Who said Friday the 13th was unlucky? To the thousands of soldiers serving in * this Division, mail day means more than pay day, believe me, and the postal fellows and the A.S.C. drivers can always be relied upon to gladly turn out at any hour of the day or night to ensure that the mail is delivered smartly to the many hundreds who are so eagerly awaiting its arrival. "Fall out for mail!," is answered more readily than "Fall out for mess!"
Home certainly doesn't seem half so far away when one has a pile of letters from wife, mother, sweetheart, and brother, and to those who are responsible for the good service we are getting, we say, "Thank you."—l am, etc., N.Z.E.F.I.P.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1943, Page 4
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193PACIFIC MAIL Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1943, Page 4
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