HC Deb 22 June 1920 vol 130 cc2025-6W
Mr. MacVEAGH

asked the Postmaster-General whether, seeing that letters from Great Britain to principal towns in Austria take only from four to six days in transit, and parcels by parcel post take five or six weeks, he can take any steps to secure a more rapid parcel post service?

Mr. ILLINGWORTH

A change has recently been made in the route used for the parcel post to Austria, and I believe that the time of transit is not now so long as it was before. But foreign parcel services generally are subject to delay in consequence of difficulties of transport abroad.