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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.

July 12th, 1907. 5.

Rret REG 18 JUL 07

With reference to your letter of the 27th ultimo,

No.18491 forwarding a copy of a letter from the Commit-

tee of the China Association relative to the Parcel

Post with China, I am directed by the Postmaster Gen-

eral to furnish, for the information of the Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs, the following explanation

of the present position with regard to the parcel post

between this country and China.

Postal Agencies are maintained by different coun-

tries of the Postal Union at certain places in China;

and parcels can be sent from the United Kingdom to

these places through the medium of the particular coun-

tries concerned. In China itself parcels are also

conveyed between all towns of any considerable impor-

tance by the Chinese Imperial Post Office, which ac-

cepts in addition, from the Foreign Agencies above

mentioned, parcels from places abroad intended for de-

livery in China. The Foreign Agencies thus provide

Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

the