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-bags, the forwarding of official unpaid correspondence, and of soldiers and seamens
penny
3.
letters.
The empty bags could, I imagine,
be returned either via Brindisi or
Marseilles, without any objection being raised by the Italian of French Post Office.
4.
equally
Covers
The official unpaid
might well be sent by these routes, better in fact.
I am convinced that
many official letters are intended to be sent
via Brindisi or Marseilles but the
senders are
ignorant of the rule requiring. special direction for those routes, and so
the letters are sent via Southampton, losing perhaps a fortnight. An understanding that official unpaid letters would always be sent by first mail would be a great improvement.
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As to soldiers and sailor's penny
letters, some arrangement would have to be made, and I do not suppose Governments
the
of France and Italy would be unwilling to deal with the question liberally, especially as the amount of such correspondence is comparatively small. At present Her Majesty's Forces are not allowed to send penny letters via elbarseilles and vià Brindisi the charge is 3°. It could probably be arranged to allow frenny the