EUROPEAN MAILS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1957, 2 June 1880, Page 3

EUROPEAN MAILS.

It may not bo generally known that mails for Europe are forwarded via San Eraneisco only unless they are specially addressed via some other route ; even the Brindisi rate of postage being affixed will not ensure their dispatch by that route. Wo have heard a good deal of grumbling about the delay in the receipt of letters from Europe, but from inquiries we are satisfied that it is entirely owing to the above postal rule not being understood. It would bo as well for correspondents to adviso their friends that the most expeditious way of dispatching their letters is by the San Francisco mail, and the Brindisi one which alter nates fortnightly with it. The Brindisi mail, which closes the day after the departure of the San Francisco mail from London, will no doubt be used by business men for the dis patch of duplicates of the previous day’s fetters, but for the general public both it and that per the Orient line are practically useless —so far, at least, as this colony is concerned. It should also be borne in mind that the revenue derived from the San Francisco route goes into the colonial purse, whilst that derived from the other rentes has to bo handed over to the subsidising Governments of the respective lines.