HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE
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242.--The sender of a radio-telegram may have it collated or repeated at each station or office during transmission by paying in addition to the ordinary charge a quarter as much again. The instruction "T.C." which must be written before the address is chargeable as one word.
243.-RADIO-TELEGRAMS FOR DELIVERY BY POST FROM A PORT OF CALL OF THE SHIP TO WHICH THEY ARE TRANSMITTED.
Radio-telegrams may be sent by a const station to a ship station or by a ship station to another ship station with the object of being forwarded by ordinary post or by air mail from a port of call. Retransmission by radio- telegraphy is not permitted in such cases.
The address must be drawn up as follows:-
(a) The paid service indication "Poste" or "PAV," followed by the
name of the port where the radio-telegram is to be posted.
(b) Name and full address of the addressee.
(c) Name of the ship station which is to carry out the posting.
(d) Name of the coast station unless the message is exchanged directly
between two ships.
Example:-Poste (or PAV) Buenosaires; Smith 14 Calle Prat Valparaiso
Avon Land's End Radio.
In addition to the radio-telegraph charges, a charge of 20 cents for postage should be collected, or of 63 cents to cover the charges for air mail postage.
A charge of 10 cents is made for a radio-telegram posted as an ordinary letter: and 30 cents if forwarded as a registered letter. These charges are- additional to the ordinary radio-telegram charges.
Radio-telegrams for delivery by post cannot be rotransmitted by wireless
telegraphy.
244.-MULTIPLE RADIO-TELEGRAMS (T.M.)
Radio-telegrams may be addressed to several persons on the same ship, in which case the indication "T.M." (the number of addresses being inserted in the blank space) must be written before the name of the first addressee. This indication counts as one word at the full rate per word, and a copying fee of 25 cents for each additional copy beyond the first must be paid, besides the ordinary charge for the radio-telegram.
If the sender of the radio-telegram desires that all addresses should appear on any or all of the copies to be delivered to the addressees, he must write the instruction "C.T.A." (meaning
(meaning "communicate to all addressees") before each of the addresses to which this instruction is intended to apply. This indication is charged for as one word each time it is used.