A storage (demurrage) charge of $2.00 will be imposed on each ordinary, insured and trade charge parcel which the addressee fails to collect within 10 days (15 days in the case of trade charge parcels) after the issuance of the delivery advice slip. If the addressee fails to collect the parcel after 20 days it will be transferred to the Re- turned Parcel Office; if it is not actually returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of it may be recalled by the addressee on payment of a further recall charge of $2.00.
When a collection is made in respect of an amount due for storage and recall from the Returned Parcel Office the money received will be accounted for by means of affixing postage-due stamps to each parcel to the value of charge paid.
Storage (demurrage) charges imposed on undelivered parcels cannot be evaded by redirecting the parcels to another delivery office.
A parcel received in the Colony addressed to care of Post Office or Poste Restante will be retained for a period of 2 months before being treated as undeliverable or abandoned. Such a parcel will be liable to demurrage charges as indicated above. If, however, during this period or during the period of retention at a post office the contents of a parcel become or are likely to become worthless through natural decay, or are found to be offensive or injurious, they are liable to be disposed of forthwith.
NON-DELIVERY
LETTER POST
An undeliverable letter, postcard, small packet, printed paper, commercial paper or sample returned to this Colony from abroad, if it bears on the outside the full name and address of the sender, is returned direct and unopened on payment of any charges due. Any other such undeliverable packet is opened by an officer deputed for the purpose; if it contains the sender's address it is returned to him.
An undeliverable printed paper of no value is not returned unless the sender, by means of an indication on the outside of the packet, has asked for its return.
PARCELS
A parcel which cannot be delivered abroad is usually returned to the sender at his expense, without previous notification, unless he has requested at the time of posting that it be treated as abandoned if undeliverable.
If parcels addressed to certain places abroad cannot be delivered, the sender is advised, and his instructions for the disposal of the parcels are then communicated to the post office at which they are held.
The cost of returning a parcel includes postage (generally equivalent to the outward charge) and in many cases charges levied abroad for warehousing, and so on. Customs duty raised on a parcel abroad is generally cancelled if the parcel is returned; but on parcels sent
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