Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESSasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that letters posted in. the village of Eriswell, Suffolk, at 7.30 on Saturday evening are only delivered in Mildenhall on the following Tuesday morning, although the distance is only three miles; and whether he can make arrangements to remove this inconvenience and to accelerate the delivery of letters during the week-end?
§ Mr. KELLAWAYThe final despatch from Eriswell on Saturday is made at 6.15 p.m., and letters for Mildenhall posted in time for this despatch are delivered by first post on Monday. A letter posted after the final despatch on Saturday would fall into the first outward mail on Monday, and would reach Mildenhall too late for delivery on that day. It is not practicable in present circumstances to improve the postal connection between Eriswell and Mildenhall during the weekend, but the general question of the restoration of the collection of letters on Sundays is now under consideration.