§ Viscount Hinchingbrookeasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that troops and their relatives are inconvenienced by the delays, amounting to seldom less than 24 hours, to which correspondence is subjected through the superimposition of the Army postal system on to the civil postal services; and whether more satisfactory arrangements can be arrived at which will meet the question of security and the necessary training of Army postal units for service in theatres of war overseas?
§ Captain MargessonIt is essential from the point of view of security that the present form of address for troops in this country should be maintained, and this necessitates the continuance of the existing arrangements whereby this correspondence is dealt with by the Army Postal Services. In some cases this system may cause some slight delay as compared with the civil postal services but there are other cases in which the Army postal service is the more rapid.