HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.
PARS. I
Offices .. Business Hours
Holidays Deliveries Pillar Boxes
1 2-3
sent by post
6-7
8
Poste Restante
Private Boxes
9-13
Registration
Articles not allowed to be
Redirection ad Interception 105-109 110-114
Undelivered Correspondence 115-119
PARS. 91-102
PARS.
103-104
Exceptional Conditions Letters, etc., irrgularly mark-
ed value
156
157
Letters to or from Soldiers,
etc.
158
A
Post Cards
161-163
Postage Stamps
14-16
Articles of value
1240
Printed and Commercial
Despatch
17-27
MiscellaneoLIN
121-122
Papers
164-174
Local Postage Rates
28
Local Money Orders and
Patterns and Samples
175-183
Letters
29-37
Postal Rutes
129-139
Prohibited Articles
184
Printed matter-newspapers.
33.4
Postal Notes
140-151
Registration
185.195
Book Packets
46.
Countries comprised in Postal
Insurance of letters
196
Commercial Papers
54.63
Union..
152
General Regulations
197-234
Patterns
64-72
Foreign Postage Rates..
153
General
235-236-
Prices Current and Circulars
73-76
Unpaid ad Partially Pail
Foreign Money Orders
237-245
Post Cards
77-81
Local Parcel Post
82-90
Letters Letters for Russia,
154
Imperial Postal Notes
246
155
General
252
OFFICES.
1.--The Head Office for British Postal business in China is in the city of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch offices at West Point, Hongkong and Kowloon. There is a Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places, viz :----
Canton, Hoihow, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Hankow and Liu Kung-tau.
BUSINESS HOURS.
2.-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on week days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.mt. In the event of a contract mail arriving after the ordinary business hours, the office is opened for the delivery of correspondence as soon as possible after the mails have been landed and sorted, and will be kept open for one hour thereafter.
3.-The Branch Offices are open from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on ordinary days, and from 8 to 9 a.m. on Sundays and Holidays.
HOLIDAYS.
4.-Sundays and all Public and Government Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and except the departure of a contract mail happens to be fixed for a Public or Government Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching the mails.
5.-[Division of Postal' Districts.]
DELIVERIES.
6. In districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 15 deliveries will be made at 8 .m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m. on ordinary days.
In districts Nos. 11 (Albany and Peak Road) and 12 (Ship Street to Cancanery Bay Road) at 9 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., and in district No. 14 (Peak) at noon and 4 p.m., the Postmen leaving the Office for the two last named districts at 11.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays deliveries will be made in all districts at 9 a.m. only. Contract mails are, however, delivered as soon as possible after arrival. The ordinary deliveries may be retarded by such mails.
The last delivery of Registered Correspondence is at 4 pm. There are no deliveries on Chinese New Year's Day.
To Shipping.
7.--As a general rule correspondence for shipping in harbour is delivered to the agents, but if desired it will be delivered on board at noon and 4 p.m. on week days.
PILLAR BOXES.
8. Pillar Letter Boxes are cleared daily except on Sundays and holidays. Letters containing any article of value should not be posted in a pillar box, but should be registered at the General Post Office.
Persons posting in these boxes may cancel their stamps by writing the date across them. The time of clearing these boxes may sometimes be later than is stated, and, as the postman has to finish his delivery before taking any letters he finds in the boxes to the Post Office, it is in most cases about an hour or more after the box is cleared before such letters reach the General Post Office.
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