Sal Speeds Your Parcels
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A new overseas parcel service, known as SAL surface air lift which reduces time of delivery to about half of ordinary surface mail, has been introduced in Fiji. . . , The SAL service provides surface travel within the countries of origin and destinations, but by air in between. The cost is reasonable and as with all postal services it has the advantage of delivery right to the addressee.
The minimum charge for sending a parcel by this method from Fiji to Scotland, by way of example, is $2.00 with an additional $l.OO per pound weight in excess of the first two pounds. Thus, a package weighing three pounds sent from Suva to Aberdeen would cost $3.00.
It would travel from Suva to Nadi by surface, by air from there to London, where it would be transhipped to rail for the journey to Aberdeen and it should be there in about two or three weeks.
It is hoped that the system will soon be extended to other islands of the south Pacific.