§ Colonel DAYasked the Postmaster-General whether, in issuing instructions that letters posted after midday on 23rd December will not be, delivered on 25th December or earlier, he has, apart from the inconvenience to the general public that such action will cause, considered the delay to business letters and the consequences that might result from orders posted on the afternoon of 23rd December not feeing delivered until 28th December?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONOwing to the heavy postings immediately before Christmas, I regret that some delay is inevitable, and it is necessary to deal with correspondence in sequence. Letters posted by midday on 23rd December will be given preference, but I hope that a large proportion of letters posted before midday on the 24th, if for local delivery or for neighbouring towns, will be 2191W delivered by Christmas Day. It is not practicable to distinguish between business communications and private correspondence.