Address reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office," quoting Registered No. 835.151/03.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, 27 July 1903.
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Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 13th instant, No. 24563, forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong dated the 27th of May last in regard to the transmission of coin and bullion by post from British Post Offices in China to the United Kingdom. I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State, that the transmission by post to or from the United Kingdom of parcels of coin or bullion exceeding £5 in value is forbidden by Article 18 of the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant of 1901.
This restriction was introduced after full consideration of the circumstances by this Department and His Majesty's Treasury, mainly on account of the grave inconvenience and risk incurred in the handling and custody of such parcels in transit.
The Postmaster General thinks that any departure from the existing regulation is undesirable; and he wishes me to inform the Under Secretary of State.
COLONIAL OFFICE.