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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
16.-The Boxes must not be taken to the Post Office either at Hongkong or Canton, but are to be placed on board and taken off the steamers by the messengers of the Permit-holders.
POSTAGE STAMPS, POST CARDS, WRAPPERS AND ENVELOPES
17.-Hongkong Postage Stamps, Wrappers and Envelopes of the following values can be purchased :—
Postage Stamps-
1 cent
2
11
4
""
6
8
71
10
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12
20
17
30
""
97
50
1 dollar. 2 dollars.
3
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""
5
10
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Post Cards-
1 cent.
2 cents (with reply paid).
4 cents.
8 cents (with reply pais). Wrappers--
2 cents.
Embossed Envelopes-
4
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4 cent size 9} (5}′′ × 48′′)
13 (44′′ × 34′′) Envelopes are sold in packets of 5, and in addition to the par value of thestamps embossed thereon, 1 cent is charged per packet of 5 envelopes.
Registration Envelopes hearing a 10 cents stamp, embossed on the flap for the payment of the registration fee are of the following sizes:--
F. 51 ins. × 31 ins.
"
G
-6
喃喃
"
33
"
H. 8
5
H2-9
4
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K-11
6 "1
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Books of Stamps (containing 16 four cents, 12 two cents and 12 one cent) at $1. Reply-paid coupons, 12 cents
each.
18.--Boxholders are recommended to mark their stamps by perforation with minute holes, such holes being not larger than the holes separating one stamp from another.
19. Correspondence will not be stamped at the Post Office and charged to a boxholder's account.
REPLY COUPONS
20.-Coupons exchangeable for stamps of the value of 25 centimes (24d.) each, in any country participating in the arrangement can be purchased at the General Post Office for 12 cents each for the purpose of prepaying replies to letters. The coupons can be exchange by the addressee of such letters at certain Post Offices for local postage stamps.
DESPATCH
21. The dates and hours of closing all mails in the General Post Office are also published twice daily in a Special Mail Notice, except on Sundays and Holidays.
22.-As a general rule the Mails for Europe by English and French Contract Packets are closed as follows when the steamer leaves at noon, viz.:-
Letters......
Latter Letters with Late Fee of 10 cents.
11 a.m. 11 a.m. to noon.
23.-Mails by American, Canadian, Indian or Australian packages for the Siberian route to Europe and by private steamers for Coast and other Ports are closed one hour before the advertised time of departure except when such steamers leave at daylight, when such mails are closed the evening previous at 5 p.m., or as notified.
24.-When private steamers leave at noon on the days of departure of Contract Packets, mails by such steamers are closed at 10 a.m.
25.—The mails for Shanghai, &e., by English, French and German Contract Packets from Europe are closed one hour before time of departure.
26.—Correspondence can be registered for contract mails to Europe, Canada, and America up to one hour before the time of closing; with a late fee of 10 cents registered articles for despatch by such packets will be accepted up to three-quarters of an hour before the time of closing the ordinary mail; registered mails to Shanghai, Japan, Straits, India, Manila and Australia by other than contract packets close half an hour before the ordinary mail, and to the coast ports a quarter of an hour before closing the ordinary mails.
27.-Correspondence specially directed for any particular steamer is sent by her (failing any request to the contrary), however many times her departure may be postponed. If it is postponed sine die the correspondence is sent on by the next opportunity.