MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 12

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel malls) will; be close! at Chief Post Office/Wellington; Cl, as under:-— Mails close at Post Office, Te Arc," C 2. and Wellington East, C 3, and half-hourly prior to the closing •of malls at. the'• Chief Post Office, between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 4.30.p.m. (Mails for Auckland per "Limited" express close at these offices at 4.30 p.m.). FRIDAY, OCTOBER .18. Australian States * and countries •' via Aut* tralia, 11 a.m. Other overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. CHRISTMAS MAILS FOR GREAT BRITAIN, .1 AUSTRALIA, ETC. ,1 It is not possible this year to. furnish closing dates of Chrstmas malls for overseas, but the following information - Is' supplied :— Great Britain and Europe, suggested time of posting not later than mid-October; America, suggested time of posting, November (last week); East (including Egypt), suggested time of posting, mid-October; Australia, suggested time of posting, mid-December. Early posting is recommended in view of the uncertainty of transit time.' ■• .. ... ■ ■ ; TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE. Mails will close ' at. Wellington at-, noon on Tuesday, October 15, Tuesday,, October 22. Postage Rates.—Australia (including air ser« vices in Australia): Letters, sd. each half* ounce; postcards, 3d; Egypt, Africa,.= and in« termedlate Empire countries, <Is 6d-each halfounce; postcards. 9d. Foreign^countries, intermediate between Australia find i Egypt, special rates apply. Inquire at. Post' Office. •. Note.—Postage"■ rates include- air 'services la New 'Zealand when, necessary., . , , TRANS-PACIFIC AIRMAIL. The .closing..times for malls from.-Wellington 8 Next mail, noon, Thursday, October' 24. Postage rates: Letters, Hawaii 2s ,6d each halfounce ; United States and Canada- (including air> in America) 4s each half-ounce; Great Britain 5s 9d t each half-ounce. For further particulars apply -to Post Office. ', AIR-MAIL SERVICES :TO GREAT BRITAIN. Route.—Air . New Zealand, * Australia, Cap* Town only (by traris-Tasman air mail or Australian dispatches), • normal: transit time, 33 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), Is 6d. Route. —xAir" Honolulu-New 'York' only (at opportunity 'offers), normal transit *-. time, approximately 3 weeks; postage rates (each halfounce), Is-9d.' • . : ' - -:■ '■ Route. —xAlr Honolulu, • United Sta»es ot America, Great' IWtain' (as opportunity offers), normal transit .time,, under 3> weeks; postage rates, (each half-ounce), ,4s. . ■. Route.^Alr New-Zealand-New-York* only (by trans-Pacific' air mail), normal' transit time, approximately , 2 weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. ; .•: •.:..;.";..' Route. —Air New. Zealand, United r States of America,' Great Britain (by;tra'ns-Paciflc and transatlantic air mail), normal .transit time, 12 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), 5i 9d. - ■ '- ■■ -■ , ■' -.": , :■• xConnections uncertain, letters accepted at sender's risk. , . . ■ F. W. IMATHEWS, . Chief Postmaster. Tuesday, October 15, 1840. '- ' '