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INLAND POST
Private Boxes
Private boxes may be rented in the General Post Office, Hong Kong, and in the Central Post Office, Kowloon, for the fees of $20 and $10 a year (ending on the 31st December) or $2 and $1 a month, according to size. All fees are payable in advance. 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. A box may not be rented for a shorter period than three months.
By renting a box, correspondence is received with greater expedition and accuracy. Access to boxes is afforded to box-holders from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on week- days and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays.
It materially facilitates the sorting, and conse- quently the delivery of correspondence, when it bears as a portion of the address the number of the box. The Postmaster General, therefore, specially requests pri- vate box-holders to have the numbers of their pri- vate box prominently shown on their letter paper, invoices, and other forms used by them in communi- cating with their correspondents, together with a re- quest that when addressing mail matter to them the number of the private box should always be included in the address.
Private box-holders may send 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 regis- tered" written in the book.
A private box may not be rented in a fictitious name, or for an improper purpose. The Postmaster General may refuse to let or relet a box to any person without assigning any reason for such refusal,
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