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General Post-Office, Hongkong.
RATES OF POSTAGE, NOTIFICATIONS, &c.
REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE POST MASTER-GENERAL ON THE 6TH DECEMBER, 1870.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS.
Colonial Postage Stamps may be purchased at the General Post-Office. The Stamps represent the following amounts in value:-
Two Cents... One Penny.
Four Cents....
Six Cents ....
Two Pence.
Three Pence.
Eight Cents....... Four Pence.
Twelve Cents......Six Pence.
Eighteen Cents......Nine Pence. Twenty-four Cents...One Shilling. Thirty Cents......... Fifteen Pence. Forty-eight Cents... Two Shillings. Ninety-six Cents..... Four Shillings.
It must understood that the Postage Labels of this Colony are alone available for the payment of postage on correspondence posted at the General Post-office in Hongkong, or the Agencies thereof at Canton, Macao, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow foo, Shanghai, Ningpo, Hiogo, Nagasaki, and Yokohama, and that except in the case of correspondence sent by Officers and Seamen serving on board Her Majesty's Ships British Postage Stamps are not available for the payment of postage on letters, &c., addressed to the United Kingdom.
They may be used on correspondence addressed to places to which the pre-payment of postage is either compulsory or optional, no credit will be given to these Stamps on correspondence addressed to places to which the postage can not be prepaid in Hongkong. All correspondence for places to which prepayment is compulsory, must be prepaid in Hongkong Postage Stamps.
Insufficiently Stamped Letters addressed to the United Kingdom will be sent on, charged with a fine of One Shilling in addition to the Postage.
All transactions in fractional parts of a Dollar will be conducted in the Coins prescribed by Ordinance No. 1 of 1866, and in the Proclamation of the 22nd January, 1864, and no other Coins but those therein specified will either be received or given in change as fractional parts of a Dollar.
Payment for Postage Stamps must be made in the current Dollars of the Colony
or Bank Notes.
ENGLISH PACKETS.
Letters for registration will be received until 10 A.M. on the day of departure. Letters posted atter 10 A.M. will not be forwarded unless the Lote Fee of 18 cents each as well as the postage is prepaid. The latest time of posting Letters at this Office is 11 AM and for Newspapers, Books, or Patterns 10 A.M. Letters (but Letters only) addressed to the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, or to Singapore, may be posted on board the Packet from 11.30 A.M. to the time of sailing, on payment of a Late Fee of 48 cents each in addition to the postage.
FRENCH PACKETS.
Late
The Post-office will be open for the reception of Ordinary Letters, Newspapers, Books, &c., until 11 A.M. on the day of departure of the packet, after which 10 Letters can be received. Letters for Registration will be received until 10 A.M.
UNITED STATES' PACKETS.
The Post-office will be open for the reception of Ordinary Letters, Books, News- papers, &c., until 2 P.M. on the advertised day of departure,
Letters can be posted on board the Packet from 2 P.M. to 2.50 P.M., on payment of a Late Fee of 12 cents in addition to the Postage.
The prepayment of the Postage to all places by this route is compulsory. Correspondence insufficiently prepaid will be forwarded by the English Packet.
Correspondence addressed to
scribed per
and that addressed to the United King-
dom must be superscribed "vit San Francisco."
MONEY ORDERS.
Money Orders will be granted until 5 P.M. of the day previous to the departure of the English and French Packets.
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