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F. W. MITCHELL., Postmaster General,
Prepayment is compulsory on Letters sent to all other places by Private Ship at 8 cents for every ounce.
Unpaid or insufficiently Prepaid Letters caunot be forwarded by United Stat^ ; Packets. Correspondence sent by Private Ship to India cannot be prepaid.
Prices Current, 2 coats each.
Correspondence for Europe by French Packet can only be sent viù Marseilles.
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General Post Office, Hongkong, 25th September, 1872.
POST OFFICE NOTICES.
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POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS.
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Letters containing coin posted in the United Kingdom addressed to Hongkong, or posted in Hongkong addressed to the United Kingdom, on which the Fee for Registration has not been paid will be compulsorily registered and charged on delivery with a double Registration Fee and further, any Letters having the word "Registered" written upon them which may be posted without Registration, will be forwarded, charged in like manner with a double Registration Fec.
In the event of a Letter being supposed to contain coin, and being consequently thus treated, and proof being afterwards afforded that the letter did not contain coiu, the amount charged will be refunded. F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office, Hongkong, 24th October, 1867.
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Correspondence intended to be forwarded to the United Kingdom in the mails by the French Packets be posted at the British Post Offices at Shanghai and Yokohama, and that the same will be forwarded in closed Mulls to London.
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General Post Office, Hongkong, 27th November, 1807.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
Circular.
The Undersigned solicits the Bankers and Mercantile Community to post all Letters, &c., as carly as practicable, cspecially when sent in large numbers, as facility is given to the Post Office in discharge of its duties, and greater security afforded to the public by such a conrse; whercas great inconvenience, and frequently confusion, occurs, through the whole of the correspondence from many of the large Firms being sent to the Post Office at the last moment, before closing the Mails for Europe, by both the English and French Packets.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.