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which can be sent hence to places in China south of
Manchuria are letter packets and postcards;
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Postmaster General regrets that he is not in a position
to afford special facilities for the transmission of
plague serum.
It would seem from communications which have been
received from the public that an impression 25 current
that the parcel post viâ Siberia is as rapid as the
letter post. The Postmaster General understands,
however, that parcels are not conveyed across Siberia
by the Mail trains, but only by slower trains, and
that parcels for China proper sent by the Siberian
route would be about 12 days longer in transit than
letters.
(Signed)
I am &c.,
Matthew Nathun.