HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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pered with. Re-directed registered letters must not be dropped into a letter box but must be handed to an officer of the Post Office to be dealt with as registered.
106.-Re-directed letters, &c., which are re-posted later than the day after delivery will be liable to charge at the prepaid rate. Any which appear to have been opened or tampered with will be chargeable as freshly posted unpaid letters or packets.
107.-Parcels are when re-directed liable to additional postage at the prepaid rate for each re-direction except when the original and corrected addresses are both within a delivery of the same Post Office.
108.--Letters and all other postal packets may, on payment of the following fees (to be paid by means of Postage stamps affixed to the request for interception), be intercepted and delivered to the addressee at such place as he shall request, viz:-
By any particular contract mail steamer from
Europe
By any vessel from any port during the course
of one calendar month
$1.00
$5.00
109.-Interceptions shall be made when practicable, but the fees so paid shall not entitle the persons applying to have their mail matter intercepted to claim as of right the interception of all or any particular postal packet addressed to them.
110.-The Postmaster-General shall not be bound to entertain any request for interception unless such request is accompanied by the above prescribed fees. Corres- pondence directed to care of boxholders in Hongkong must, without exception, be delivered as addressed.
POSTE RESTANTE.
111.-All letters and other Postal packets superscribed "To be kept till called for," "To await arrival," or in any similar way, and also those addressed "Post Office," or "Hongkong" without any other address are held to fall under the head "Poste Restante."
112.-The Poste Restante being intended solely for the accommodation of strangers and travellers who have no permanent abode in the town, letters or other postal packets for residents must not be addressed to the Post Office to be called for, nor will such letters or postal packets be kept in the Poste Restante longer than the following periods, viz.:-
Letters for steamers are kept for 3 months
sailing vessels
Local letters are kept for 1 month International
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2 months
4
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113.-Letters or other postal packets addressed to initials or to fictitious names or to a christian name without a surname are not taken in at the Poste Restante but are at once sent to the Returned Letter Branch for disposal.
114. All persons applying for Poste Restante letters or other postal packets must furnish the necessary and required particulars to prevent mistakes and to ensure the delivery of the same to the persons to whom they properly belong and sign the register. If the addressee does not apply for same in person the messenger must be furnished with the required information and must have a written authority to receive them. If the applicant be a foreigner he must produce his passport or other evidence of identity.
DISPOSAL OF UndeliverED CORRESPONDENCE.
115.-Every letter or other postal article should bear the full name and address of the sender in order to ensure its return in case of non-delivery.
116.—An undelivered local or foreign letter or post card bearing the full name and address of the sender printed or written upon the outside is returned direct to the sender. Other undelivered local letters and post cards are sent to the Returned Letter Branch where, after having been advertised, they will at the expiration of ten days be opened and returned, if possible, to the senders if they contain neither sender's name or address nor any enclosure of importance they will be destroyed. Letters found to contain value are recorded and if returned are registered. Letters from abroad are returned unopened to the country of origin after having been advertised.
117.-Book packets and newspapers which cannot be delivered and which bear the name and address of the sender with a request for their return in case of non-delivery are returned direct to the sender on payment of a second postage. Those bearing no name nor request for return are sent to the Returned Letter Branch, where, after having been advertised, they will, at the expiration of ten days thereafter, if not pre- viously claimed and a second postage paid, be disposed of.
118.-The name and address of the sender and the request for return should be written or printed in small type at the upper left-hand corner of the packet.
119.--All unpaid undelivered letters or post cards shall be delivered to the senders only on the payinent of the amount charged thereon.
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