MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 10

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel malls) will Be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as under:— Mails close at Tost Ofllec, Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3, and half-hourly prior to the closing of mails at the Chief Post Office, between the hours of 0.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (Mails for Auckland per "Limited" express close at these offices at 4.30 p.m.) OVERSEAS MAILS (OUTWARD). THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. Australian States and countries via . Australia, 11 a.m. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5. Australian States and countries, via Australia, 11 a.m. Other overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. CHRISTMAS MAILS FOR AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, ETC. It is uui possible this year to furnish closing cliitts uf Christinas mails for overseas, but. the follo\viiiß information is supplied:— Amerca, suggested time of posting, Novemoer (last week) Australia, suggested time of posting (mid-December). Early posting is recommended in view of the uncertainty of transit time. TKANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE. Mails will close at Wellington three times' each fortnight. Postage rates: Australia (including air ser-1 vices in Australia). Letters 5d each halfounce, postcards 3d. Egypt. Africa, and intermediate Empire countries Is 6d each balfounee. postcards «d. Foreign countries In termediate between Australia and Egypt, special rates apply. Inquire at Host 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, 4 p.m., Thursday, December 5. Postage rates. Letters. Hawaii 2s tid each half-ounce; 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 I'ntto only (by trans Tasniau air mail or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, 3duys . postage rate (each half-ounce). Is tid. 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 of America, Great Britain (as opportunity offers). normal transit time, under 3 weeks; postage rates (eacb half-ounce), 4b. Route.—Air New Zealand-New York (by trans-Pacific air mall), normal transit time, approximately 2 weeks;. postage rates (each j half-ounce). 4s - i Route. —Air New Zealand, United States ot America, Great Britain (by trans-Pacific and transatlantic air mall), normal transit time) 112 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), 5s

9d. xConuections uncertain,, letters accepted at sender's risk.