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INLAND POST
All unpaid or insufficiently prepaid undeliverable letters or postcards are returned to the senders on pay- ment of the amount charged on them, which the sen- ders are bound by law to pay.
If 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 50 cents.
Non-delivery of Registered Articles.
The foregoing regulations also apply to undelivered registered articles, but, if the name and address of the sender cannot be ascertained from either the cover or from the enclosures when opened in the Returned Letter Office, they are retained in the Dead Letter Office at the General Post Office, Hong Kong, for a period of 12 months, as from the date of posting.
Early Return to Sender
In case of non-delivery, the return of a postal packet to the sender is facilitated, if the sender's name and address appear on the outside of the packet. The sender's name and address should be written or print- ed, either on the back of the envelope or wrapper, or inconspicuously on the left-hand half of the address side in such a manner as not to obscure, or prevent the easy and quick reading of, the name and address of the addressee.
Registration
Letters, postcards, printed papers, commercial papers, literature for the blind, and samples may be registered. The registration fee is 25 cents in addi- tional to the postage, which must fully prepaid.
An article intended for registration must be pre- sented at the counter of a post office and a receipt obtained. Nothing intended for registration should be dropped into a letter box. Articles addressed to initials, figures, Christian names without surnames, fictitious names or conventional marks of any kind, as well as those addressed in pencil, except copying ink pencil, will not be accepted for registration,