HONGKONG POSTAL
POSTAL GUIDE
PARS
PARS.
PARS.
Acceptance of radiotelegram Accounts, boxholders'
Acknowledgment of delivery
Registered letter .130, 141, 147 Acknowledgment of payment ..215A Addresses..
Do. on circulars
Advice of payment
238
Explosives
16
..
Do.
84, 89, 92 Fictitious address, Poste Restante 102 Do. registered letters.. 129 Forbidden articles..
92-98 in parcels 159-162
Poste Restante
99-103
Poste Restante parcels
179
Posting, certificates of..
115
Powders
87
Prepayment of duty
169-171
34
Franked letters
32
Prices current (see Circulars)
73
Glass
86
Printed matter
49-62-
Affixing of stamps..
215A 118, 134
Gold
93
Private boxes..
10-16-
Holidays
2,
3
Prohibited articles
92-98.
Do.
on parcels 149
Do. deliveries on
5
Do. in parcels.. 159-162
Afghanistan, correspondence for 119
Hours of business
2
Radio-telegrams
238-240-
Albums
52
Do.
radiotelegrams 239
Rates of postage (Appendices)
Almanacs
69
Indecent postcards
98
Reclamations
141
America, parcels to
Articles prohibited
Do.
172, 173 92-98 in parcels 159-162
Information as to letters, etc.
124
Initials, Poste Restante
162
Redirection, insured parcels
Do. ordinary letters
193.
104-109-
Do. registered letters
129
Do. parcels
177
Avis de reception
130, 141 147
Insufficiently paid postage..
35, 36
Do.
registered letters
136
Bad coin
122
Insured letters
145-147
Registered letters..
128-144
Bills.
Book packets ..
69
Do. parcels
182-197
Do. Chinese
142, 143.
Blind, literature for
63
Interception of Correspondence. 110
49-62
Invitations
69
Do. delivery of..
Books of stamps
17
Jewellery
90, 91, 93
Boxes, letter
6
Kowloon City.
5
Do.
redirection of
Do. private
10-16
Late letters
27
Boxholders
10-16
Letters, consignees'
37
Do. accounts
16
Do. dimensions of
33
Do. no redirection for
107
Do. late
27
Do. compensation for 137-140
Do. enquiries as to..
Registered mails, closing of
Registration
Do. compulsory.. 114, 133: Do. envelopes
142-143-
141
136
28.
128-144
17
Branch, Offices
1
Letter-hoxes
6
Reply coupons
17-
Bullion
93
Liability of Post Office (see also
Resin ..
85
Cards, Christmas
50
Compensation) 125, 127, 140, 161, 195
Return of correspondence
34, 120,
Do. visiting
57
Liquids
81
Russia, letters for ..
116.
Cash on Delivery parcels
198
Literature for the blind'
63
D
Samples
77-91.
Certificates of posting
115
Lotteries ..
95
Samples, tobacco
83.
Change
122
Mail notices
24
Saving Bank pass-books
62
Chinese registered letters
142, 143
Mails, closing of
24-29
Do. Correspondence
38
Chopping of receipts
142, 143
Do. inward
26
Seditious literature
96
Christmas cards
50
Do.
Cigars
171
Do.
registered
Siberian
28
Ships, letters addressed to..
7
29
Silver..
93.
Circulars
68-76
Manila, parcels to
173
Size (see Dimensions)
Clearances of pillar-boxes
8
Money
94
Soap
85
Closing of mails
24-31
Money Orders, international
210-219
Stamps
17
Do. registered
28
Do.
local
199-209
Stamps, affixing of
118, 134
Do.
parcel
153
Newspapers
41-47
Do.
do. to parcels
149-
Coin
93
Do.
unpaid
45
Do.
defaced
2
Coin, bad
122
Obscene postcards..
98
Do.
perforation of
23, 222
Commercial papers
Compensation, insured letters 147 (p
64-67
Offices
1
Stamped envelopes
17
Officials authorised to frank
32
Sundays
2, 3
Do.
do. parcels.. 194
Oils
84
Do. deliveries on
5.
Do. parcels..
163-165
Ointments
85
Superscrihed correspondence
Complaints
Do. registered letters 137-140
Compulsory registration 114, 133
Over-insurance
186
Taxed correspondence..
29-31 36
40-126
Parcel mails, closing of
153
Do.
bxholders'
14
..
Parcels
Consignees' letters..
37
Do. C. O. D.
Coupons, reply
18
..
Do
compensation for
148-160
..
196 163-165
Tea
171
..
Telegrams, wireless
238-240-
Telegraph Money Orders
215-218-
Current, prices (See Circulars)
Do. delivery of..
174-176
Tobacco
83
Customs declarations
166-168
Do. Demurrage on ..
181
Unclaimed parcels..
178
Declared value
135, 145
Do. insured
182-197
Undelivered oorrespondence 111-114
Defaced Stamps
23
Do. packing of..
155-158
Do. book packets
112
..
Deliveries, hours of
5
Do.
Delivery of parcels
174-176
Do. registered letters Do.
144 do. Chinese 142, 143
Do.
posted out of course Do. Poste Restante..
redirection ..f
152
Do. parcels
..
178, 180
..
Do. to U. S. A...
179 177 172.173
Unpaid correspondence
36.
Do.
Do.
book packets 54
boxholders' 14
Demurrage on Parcels.
Despatch of mails..
181 24.29
Pass-books
62
Do.
newspapers
45
Patterns (see Samples)
Do.
return of
39
Diniensions, book packets
59
Perforation of stamps
23
U.S.A., parcels to
172, 173
Do.
letters
33
Do. on Postal Orders 222
Valuable articles
154.
Do.
newspapers
47
Philippines, parcels to..
173
Do.
unregistered.
114.
Do.
samples
80
Pillar boxes
8
Value declared
135, 145
Duty
Duty, prepaynient of
167-168 169-171
Postage rates (Appendices)
Warrants for return of cor-
Postcards..
19-22
respondence
120
Dyes
87
Do. obscene
98
Weighing of letters, etc.
123.
Enclosure prohibited
97
Postal districts
4
Weight of book packets
59-
Do.
in parcels 159, 160
Do. guides..
17
Weight newspapers
47
Enquiries
126
D. Hong packets (Appendix II)
Enquiries for registered letters.. 141 Envelopes, stamped
Do. orders, Imperial
231-236
D.. samples
Wrappers ..
79-
17
17
Postal Notes, local
220-230
14