Overseas Service Men (Postal Facilities)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Armed Forces – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 May 1951.

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Photo of Colonel Cyril Banks Colonel Cyril Banks , Pudsey 12:00, 30 May 1951

Is the Minister aware that, in the first place, when letters were received by the Forces in Korea without an air mail letter form they were marked "Insufficiently stamped" when the man received them—without any notification to the people at home that unless they put a 6d. stamp on the letters they would be sent by sea? In one case of a letter for a man in Korea, that man waited for 21 days to hear news that a child had been born at his home, and that was because it was sent by sea mail. I appeal to the Minister to send by air mail—