OVERSEAS MAILS

Southland Times, Issue 23346, 2 November 1937, Page 2

OVERSEAS MAILS

CHRISTMAS POSTINGS FROM DOMINION SIX DESPATCHES LEAVE FOR ENGLAND IN TIME Planning well ahead for the time of the year when it can be of the greatest service to the community, the Post Office has prepared complete details of all the overseas mails arriving and departing until Christmas. This information is available at all post offices, and it shows that from the end of October six despatches to England will reach their destination before Christmas. As every postal administration has its rush problem in the Christmas season, early postings will carry greater assurance of delivery before that season arrives. New Zealanders advertise the attractions of their own country effectively by extensive postings overseas of the Dominion’s illustrated periodicals, and there is one outward mail before Christmas which is always a big one for volume because of the popularity of the postal concession of penny postage for these special numbers. This year the best despatch of this type, covering the forwarding to the United Kingdom of newspapers, periodicals, packets and parcels in good time before Christmas will be by the Karamea, leaving Napier on November 10, the mails being due in England on December 16. The final opportunity for the posting of letters and so on to arrive in Great Britain before Christmas will be provided by the departure of the Rangitiki from Napier on November 17, the date of arrival in London being December 21. Then there are air mails which permit postings as late as December 7 in Wellington to carry Christmas messages to England in good time for the season. The Christmas mail schedule also details the most suitable despatches for the whole American Continent, South Africa, E«ypt, China, Japan, India, Malaya, Fiji and other Pacific Island groups, and the Australian states.