HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE
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Undelivered Correspondence.
93.—An undelivered local letter or postcard 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 are sent to the Returned Letter Office where they will be opened and returned, if possible, to the senders; if they contain neither senders' name nor address, or any enclosure of importance, they will be destroyed. Letters found to contain articles of value are recorded and if returned are registered. Letters from abroad are returned unopened to the country of origin.
94.-Printed papers 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. Those bearing no name and request for return are destroyed.
95.-All unpaid undelivered letters or postcards are returned to the senders on payment of the amounts charged on them, which the senders are bound by law to pay.
96. If contrary to paragraph 72 such articles as uncrossed Postal Notes, Cheques, or Dividend Warrants, not payable to order, Bank Notes, and Postage Stamps used or unused, be found enclosed in unregistered correspondence when opened in the Returned Letter Office, such correspondence will be subject to Compulsory Registration and be charged with a registration fee of 20 cents.
Private Boxes.
97.-Private boxes may be rented in the General Post Office for fees of $20 and $10 per annum from 1st January, or $2 and $1 per mensem, according to size. All fees are payable in advance. Each boxholder is provided with a key and an account book. A sum of $2 must be deposited for the key, and this will be refunded when the box is given up and the key returned. No person may without the authority of the Postmaster General, make or cause to be made any duplicate key of any private box.
98. By renting a box, correspondence is received with greater expedition and accuracy. Access to boxes is afforded to boxholders from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on week days and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays.
99. It materially facilitates the sorting, and consequently the delivery, of correspondence when it bears as portion of the address the number of the box. The Postmaster-General, therefore, specially requests private box holders to have the number of their private box prominently shown on their letter paper, invoices, and other forms used by them in communicating with their correspondents, together with a request that when addressing mail matter to them the number of the private box should always be included in the address.
100.-Boxholders may send their letters to the post in sealed boxes for which a receipt will be given in the accompanying book. Such receipts are for "one box", not for so many letters. Such boxes should be sealed with a recognized device, and not merely locked. No attention can be paid to such remarks as "to be registered" written in the book.