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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
122.-No information can be given respecting letters or any other postal packets except to the persons to whom they are addressed, and in no other way is official information of a private character allowed to be made public.
123.-The Post Office is not legally liable for any loss or inconvenience which may arise from the damage, delay, non-delivery, mis-sending, or mis-delivery of any letter or other postal packet, but liability for actual loss or damage is accepted on certain condi- tions in the case of parcels and registered packets.
124. All complaints should be addressed to the Postmaster-General, and if marked "On Postal Business" will be forwarded free. The cover of any correspondence about which complaint is made should if possible be forwarded with such complaint. When correspondence has been mis-sent or delayed (both of which are liable to happen occa- sionally), all that the complainant need do is to write on the cover, Sent to... Delivered at............or Not received till...
or as the case may be, and forward it, without any note or letter whatever, to the Postmaster-General. Attention to this would save much writing and needless trouble.
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125. As full information regarding articles that can and that can not be sent by Post is published, under the proper heads, in the "Postal Guide," no application will be entertained for the refund of the value of postage stamps on correspondence which is dis- covered, after the postage labels have been obliterated, to contain any prohibited article, or which exceeds the limit of weight, or which for any other reason cannot be for- warded and has consequently to be returned to the sender, and any loss resulting from a non-observance of the Rules by the sender of an article must be borne by him.
REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE
Registration
126.--The ordinary registration fee for each letter or other postal packet is 10
cents.
127.-Every description of paid correspondence may be registered except such as is addressed in pencil, or is addressed to initials or fictitious naines, or is not properly fastened and secured.
128.-The sender of any registered article may obtain any acknowledgment of its delivery to the addressee by paying in advance at the time of posting a fee of 10 cents in addition to the postage and registration fee. The sender must enter in the form provided for the purpose both his own name and address and the name and address of the person to whom the packet is sent, and he must also affix to the form a stamp or stamps of the value of 10 cents in payment of the fee.
129.-Letters are accepted for registration at the General Post Office and at the Branch Offices.
130.—Every article to be registered must be given to an officer or agent of the Post Office and a receipt obtained for it. It should bear the name and address of the sender on the lower left-hand corner of the face of the cover.
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131. If an article bearing the word "Registered" or any other word, phrase, or mark to the like effect, or a Registration envelope intended by the sender to go forward as an ordinary letter, be dropped into a letter box it will, if directed to any place at which delivery can be made by Hongkong or its Agencies, be compulsorily registered and charged on delivery with a registration fee of 20 cents.
132.-Officers employed in the Registration Departmentare forbidden to address registered mail matter, to enclose it in the envelope, seal it, or affix the stamps.
133.--As it is forbidden to send coin, jewellery, or precious articles through the post to those countries of the Postal Union the names of which are marked with an asterisk in Appendix I, no letters or packets addressed to those countries and contain- ing such articles can be accepted for registration.
134.-Letters, &c., bearing on the outside a declaration of the value of the contents cannot be transmitted by post to places abroad unless they are insured.
135.--All registered letters or packets on being redirected must be taken back to the Registration Department to be dealt with as registered, and must not be dropped into a letter box as ordinary letters or packets. If brought later than the day (Sundays and public holidays not being counted) after delivery, a fresh registration fee as well as fresh postage will be required.
Compensation, etc.
136. The Postmaster-General is not legally responsible for the safe delivery of registered correspondence, but will be prepared to make good the value of such