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Any person ordering serviced covers addressed to a local
destination may collect them on May 1, 1975, 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 air
mail, and or registration charges," the spokesman explains. "The Latest
acceptance date for advance orders of serviced covers will be April 28,1975."
A service will be provided on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, at all
post offices to permit first-day covers to be accepted over the counter,
impressed with the normal post office date stamp, and handed back to the
person presenting them. No time type will appear in the postmark.
But the spokesman lists these conditions for the service:-
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 local addresses,
The articles must not bear any other cancellation.
No registered items will be processed by this method..
Special posting boxes will also be available at the General Post
Office, the Kowloon Central Post Office, and the Tsim Sha Tsui Post
Office on April 30, 1975, for members of the public who wish to have
first-day covers carefully hand-postmarked before despatch to the address
on the covers.