POSTAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 96, 28 August 1923, Page 6

POSTAL.

From September Ist, 1923 a new class of plain language cable messages known as the '‘Daily letter telegrams” are to bp accepted for the United Kingdom by both Eastern and the Pacific routes, and for Canada via Pacific only. The service is not available to other countries. The messages are to be coded D.L.T. and are to be accepted on any day except Sunday, and are subject to 48 hours delay during transmission, Delivery will he made by message l boy. Incoming messages are to be treated similarly. 1 The conditions in regard to transmission charges (minimum of 13/«* for twenty words and 8d per word thereafter’to the United Kingdom, and, in the case of Canada a, minimum of 10/2 fbr twenty words and 6d per word thereafter) and text, including figures, commercial marks, and the insertion of the indicator before the address are identical /♦’ t V ' with those at present in force for T.W.T. (week-end cables). Prom the same date the rates via Pacific for T.W.T. to the United Kingdom will be reduced to a minimum of 11/10 (including tax) for, twenty words and 7d- per word in excess, and in the case of Canada the minimum will be reduced to 8/11 (including tax) and 5Jd for each succeeding word, fractions of Id being regarded as a penny,