MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 4

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel mails) will be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as under :— Mails close at Post Office, Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3, and half-hourly prior to the closing of malls at the Chief Post Office, between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (Malls for Auckland per "Limited" express close at these offices at 4.30 p.m.) OVERSEAS MAILS (OUTWARD). THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. Australian States and countries via AusHa, 11 a.mJ Other overseas malls will be dispatched as opportunity offers. CHRISTMAS MAILS FOR GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA, ETC. It Is not possible this year to furnish closing dates of Christmas mails for overseas, but the following information; is supplied:— America,, suggested time of posting; November (last week) v Australia, suggested time of-post-ing, mid-December. Early posting is recommended in view of the uncertainty of transit time. ■■■■■: ■ .'•■ '■ ' TRANStTASMAjM SERVICE. Mails will close at Wellington at noon, Tuesday, November 5; and .8 p.m., Friday,. November 8. Postage Rates.—Australia (including air services in Australia): Letters, 5(1 each halfounce; postcards, -3d; Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries. Is 6d each, halfounce; postcards, 9d. Foreign countries intermediate between Australia and: Egypt, special rates apply. Inquire'at Post Office, Note.—Postage rates include air, services in New Zealand when necessary. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL. The closing times for mails from Wellington: Next mail, noon, Saturday, November 9. Postago rates: Letters, Hawaii, 2s 6d each halfounce; United States and Canada (including air in America), 4s. each half-ounce; -Great Britain, 5s 9d each, half-ounce. For further particulars, apply to Post Office. AIR-MAIL SERVICES TO GREAT BRITAIN. Route, —Air New Zealand, Australia, Cape Town only (by trans-Tasman air mail or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, 32 days; postage rates (each half-ounce). Is 6d. Route. —xAir Honolulu-New York only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approximately 3 weeks; postage rates (each halfounce), Is 9d. ■ Route. —xAir Honolulu, United States or America, Great Britain (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, under 3' weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route.-—Air New Zealand-New York only (by transrPaciflc air mail), normal transit time, approximately 2 weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route.—Air New Zealand, United States of America, Great Britain (by trans-Pacific and transatlantic air mail), normal transit time, 12 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), 5s 9d. sConnectlons • uncertain, letters accepted at sender's risk. w . MATH EWS, Chief Postmaster. Friday, November' 1, 1940.