HC Deb 27 June 1904 vol 136 c1226
MR. TANKERVILLE CHAMBER-LAYNE (Southampton)

To ask the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the fact that the German mails have frequently been carried, as from Southampton to New York, more expeditiously than the English mails via Queenstown, he wiil consider the advisability of sending a regular weekly mail by the Southampton route.

(Answered by Lord Stanley.) It is already the practice to send mails to New York by the weekly German and American packets from Southampton, there being always cases in which the senders indicate their washes to that effect on the covers. It is not proposed to depart from this practice nor to divert unsuperscribed letters, etc., from the Queenstown route unless, in individual cases, there are good reasons for doing so.