SIR HERVEY BRUCEasked the Postmaster General, Whether he is aware that the letters of Officers in Her Majesty's Service, when on duty at Foreign Stations, are now charged full postage, and if they are ordered away from the Stations to which such letters were addressed before the arrival of the mail bags, such letters are charged fresh postage; and, whether he considers such charges just or expedient?
§ MR. MONSELLsaid, in reply, that the privilege under which letters of officers in Her Majesty's service serving at foreign stations were formerly conveyed at a lower rate of postage than that charged upon ordinary letters was abolished on the 1st of January, 1870, by a Warrant of the Treasury Board, dated 17th August, 1869. Officers' letters were not liable to any additional charge on re-direction when an officer serving at a foreign station was removed from such station to another station before the letter arrived. That was very clearly stated in Rule 113 of The British Postal Guide.