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Unregistered letters which are fully pre-paid with phosphor-tagged stamps, bearing the full address of the addressee either in Hong Kong or overseas and posted in the special posting boxes on Friday will be processed and datestamped by CFC at the office of posting.
course.
The postmarked letters will then be delivered to the addressees in normal
CFCs can only datestamp letters of the following characteristics and devoid of stiff materials, that is, metal clips as part of their contents:
Length
Height
Thickness
Weight
Minimum Maximum
140 mm
235 mm
90 mm 160 mm
0.2 mm 6.0 mm
2 gm
50 gm
Oversized or letters not meeting the above conditions will be processed manually and will obtain a hand-stamp datestamp impression or an impression produced by other cancelling machines.
The two CFCs, one at GPO and the other at IMC, will automatically segregate mail items collected from posting boxes into packets and ordinary size letters.
For IMC, CFCs will date-stamp and further segregate them into local and overseas letters by detecting the phosphor-tagged stamps affixed on them.
Stamps tagged with two phosphor bars are predominantly used on local letters, and those with one bar on air or surface letters posted to overseas countries.
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Issuance of 1997 commemorative coins approved
The Executive Council has given approval to the issuance of a set of coins to commemorate the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in 1997.
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The set of seven coins will be in the same denominations as the seven currently circulating coins 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, $1, $2, $5, and $10. They will be identical to the current circulation coins apart from the special commemorative designs.
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