EMPIRE AIR MAILS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 8

EMPIRE AIR MAILS

(To the Editor.* Sir, —I was intensely interested in the account published in yesterday's issue of the high degree of efficiency developed in carrying letters between this country and England,*varying only each month from 15 J2 days to 14.2 days. What, however, has puzzled me personally has been my experience in each direction of times of delivery of three weeks and over. My latest example is of a letter dated and postmarked in England February 4, and delivered in Berhampore on February 28. I wonder can the Post Office explain such happenings. To avoid one possible obvious explanation, I may say that the address and the legibility of the handwriting were models of accuracy and legibility.— I am, etc., PUZZLED. , |Tfae position is that the lettes was posted too late to connect with the mail leaving London on February 4, and accordingly connected with the following mail, which left Great Britain on the 9th, states the Department. This mail reached Sydney on February 18, the day following the departure of the Awatea for Wellington. The next dispatch from Australia to New Zealand was by the Awatea on February 25. The average time taken fpr inward letter mails from Great Britain during February was 16 days, this transit time being taken from the * date of departure of the mails in London to the time of receipt at port of arrival in New Zealand.]