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Saturday, October 7, 1972

The charge will be $1.10 per cover, including the cost of one $1

stamp and a service fee of 10 cents.

The covers must be fully addressed by the applicant and not less than

10 covers will be accepted with each order.

The order forms will be available at the General Post Office, Kowloon

Central Post Office and Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office on Wednesday, October 11, 1972.

Any person ordering serviced covers addressed to a local destination

may collect them on October 21, 1972 from the office where the order was placed.

Covers addressed overseas will be sent forward by ordinary post, surface

mail, unless sufficient stamps are affixed to cover airmail and/or registration

charges.

The latest acceptance date for advance orders of serviced covers will

be 12 noon on Tuesday, October 17, 1972.

A service will be provided on Friday, October 20, 1972, at all post-

offices, where First Day Covers will be accepted over the counter, impressed

with the normal post office steel date stamp and handed back to the person

presenting them. No time type will appear in the postmark.

The special conditions for this service are:-

Only articles bearing an indication that they are "First Day Covers"

will be so treated;

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The articles must be addressed to a local address;

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The articles must not bear any other cancellation; and

No registered Items will be processed by this method.

Special posting boxes will also be available at the General Post Office,

Kowloon Central Post Office and Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office on October 20, 1972

for those wishing to have First Day Covers carefully hand-postmarked before despatch

to the address on the cover.

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