§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether his attention has been directed to the inconvenience entailed on the inhabitants of Bundoran by the delay in the day mails from Dublin and the consequent inability to reply by evening post to letters received by those mails; whether he is aware that the Bundoran letters are sent by the 6.5 a.m. train from Dublin, viâ Portadown and Omagh; are detained at Omagh, where they arrive at 9.30 a.m., till 12.25; do not reach Bundoran till 3 p.m.; and are not delivered till 4 p.m., the time when the evening mail goes out; whether he is aware that, while an express train leaves Dublin at 9 a.m., and reaches Bundoran, viâ Clones, at 1.40 p.m., the letters for Bundoran are sent some hours earlier and reach Bundoran some hours later than the parcel post, which is sent by this train; whether letters for Bundoran could be sent from Dublin by the 6.5 a.m. train, which arrives in Enniskillen at 10.5 a.m. and be taken up by the express passing Enniskillen at 12.33, and due in Bundoran at 1.40; and whether immediate steps will be taken to secure that letters should reach Bundoran from Dublin in time to be answered by the evening post.
§ MR. HANBURYThese letters now arrive at Bundoran at 2.25 p.m., and are sent out for delivery at 2.50 p.m. Some persons, however, living near the end of the delivery do not receive them in time to post replies for the return mail at 4 p.m. During the summer months an express train, as stated in the question, leaves Dublin at 9 a.m., and to reach Bundoran at 1.40 p.m. This train, however, could not be used for correspondence from Omagh and other places north of Dundalk, and even if it were used for the mails from Dublin, it is doubtful whether the residents at Bundoran would 1335 be willing that the afternoon delivery should be made before the arrival of the correspondence from Omagh, etc. The question whether a double service to Bundoran would be justified during the summer is being considered, and if that is found to be the case, inquiry shall be made as to the wishes of the residents in regard to the time of the delivery.