SOLDIERS' MAILS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 54, 3 March 1917, Page 9

SOLDIERS' MAILS

TO THB EDITOR.

Sir, —Regarding the letter appearing in Saturday's Evening Post, I wish to inform "Soldier's Sister" that the Postal Department is not responsible for the non-delivery of her papers and parcels sent to her brother in France; the reaEon being that when the Postal Department delivers its mails to the battalion or battery headquarters its duty ceases with that particular mail. Each company then details n-c.o.'s and men to draw and deliver to every man in their respective companies all hie letters, papers, parcels, etc., and any soldier who has the misfortune to be in an Eng lish hospital sick or wounded, has his letters only transferred, to Base Records, London, which is the : only organisation that knows in what hospital that soldier is' and therefore responsible for, having his. letters posted to him. His- papers and parcels are held by his company, and in fact are delivered to his section chums to be used," for if the parcete contain eatables they; are made welcome and soon devoured. ,1 have never y«t heard' of any. sick or wounded eoldier grumbling over the same being nsed ■by his comrades in the • trenches. Of course,, parcels of, ? clothing are' stored in headquarters until the soldier's return to-his corps. ; I am certain, now that "Soldier 1* Sister" knows the facts, she won't grumble or b'laine' the most up-to-date Department' a soldier on service ever had.—l am, etc., ' - ■" RETURNED SOLDIER.