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Postal Services

Volume 184: debated on Friday 25 January 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he is taking to improve the supply of forces air mail envelopes to post offices.

A further 3 million forces free airletter forms ("blueys") are being made available by the Ministry of Defence, and the Post Office is distributing them to areas of shortage as a matter of urgency. Since the start of the British deployment to the Gulf some 6 million blueys have been made available to the Post Office, of which about 1 million have been posted.