HC Deb 27 November 1919 vol 121 cc1945-6W
Mr. FOREMAN

asked the Postmaster-General whether he can arrange for the letters posted in London before midnight to be delivered by the first post the following morning within the Metropolitan area?

Mr. ILLINGWORTH

Letters posted up to midnight in the more central districts of the London postal area (the Western Central District excepted, where the time is 11.50 p.m.) are delivered by the first post on the following morning within that area. In the rest of inner London, letters may be posted up to eleven or 11.30 p.m. In the more outlying districts-the latest time for posting is now just after ten o'clock; tout, save in the remoter districts, there is a collection from 10.45 to-eleven o'clock from a certain number of posting-boxes in the neighbourhood of the-several sorting offices.