To the Editor of the journ-Ena Dany News!
Sin~To-day's mail brought, me an interesting letter from the Postmaster, United. States Post. Office, Culver Cy, California in which he brings {o'tay attention some information Which may. be interesting to stamp Collectors in. Shanghai, for further reference. He 38 'The Pan-American Airways Cilpper will jeave San Francisco, Cal. for RS" grat. run to Guam on September Of stamp collectors ye mail 08 and there it be, gait a number "flan ie Pan-American' Ale It has been the common belie tint, to simply mark a letter "Air 'Mali sor "Par Avian" is sufficient, Dut that is not always the cage as Teaves too much to failure through the human element while the letter {gen route. That is the reason we hear' 80 often of people commenting. fag to how long it took to receive an iremall itter, For instance, it a falter is to be mailed via a ship entering San' Francisco, etc. dressed. to Buenos Aires, Argentina, "Would be put on the frst. plane out for the east coast, and when it arrives in New York it might flop around and possibly continue its Journey by boat, The proper way, therefore, is to be explicit in over 13,000 miles, with stops at Hono Found cp wil cover a matte fora both ways, #0 undoubtedly the {hough service' to China is Just 9 matter of few months away and T Took for quite an amount of mall ex-Changes between here and the Orient The fight was to have started September 15, but there was nothing Gehnite, about Int, until the collectors Started to get together on a deal, and {he outcome of the whale aa wa 2 postponement "until September. 23. fo an to give everybody who wished take. advantage of the opening of this service to have the. mail at San Francisco. In time to. make the final arrangements. Did not know whether any Information on this sub-added this to my Via San Francisco to New York United Ate Lines Via New York to mama, Frida Via Mami to Tuenot Alves This, specification of route costs no} more," and. is practically fool-proof. The time element, which is so. important, as shown in the above rout, fan Franelcoto New York 1 40m. fen pace an, Tore Mite es "aden on aires" unate Meares et ease it" standard As @ matter of fact the plane did not leave San Francisco until yester-3¥, October 6, according to informa tion gathered at the local office.
Stamp collectors in Shanghai will probably have this same opportunity In the near future, Agent, Pan-American Airways Shanghai Shanghai, Oct. 7.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.