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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.
This reprint supersedes all previous issues of the Postal Guide, and is the only authorised complete summary of Postal information. Whilst always willing to supply information in other ways, the Department declines responsibility for errors in replies to verbal applications (especially if addressed to Chinese) or notes to sub- ordinate officers. The Chinese Shroffs at the windows are placed there to sell stamps, not to decide what is correct postage, which they often do not know.
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Par. 1-
3- 5 6-12 13-18 19-21
.Offices.
..Dimensions. Weights. Contents.
....How to address.
Rates of Postage.
CONTENTS.
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Par. 77-86 87-90 91- 97
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35
75
22-40 41-53
54-62 63-67 68-69 70-76
Routes and Opportunities. Posting.
Registration.
.Letters. Unpaid and Loose.
Letters. Soldiers' and Sailors',
Post Cards,
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98-100 101-103 104-107 108-121
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...Books and Patterns. ....Commercial Papers.
.Newspapers.
.Prices Current and Circulars ..Local Parcel Post.
..Requests for Redirection.
..Postage Stamps.
122-130 131-142 143-149 150-167
Money Orders.
Miscellaneous.
Private Boxes.
.Hongkong Office,
1. The Head Office for British Postal business in China is at Hongkong; there is a Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places :-
Canton, Hoihow (honorary), Macao (honorary), Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and
Hankow.
2.-All complaints, or representations of matters which cannot be adjusted locally, should be addressed to the Postmaster General, Hongkong, and, if marked On Postal Business, will be forwarded free by any Postmaster or Agent (see also paragraphs 141, 142). The cover* of any correspondence about which complaint is made should if possible be forwarded with such com- plaint. Neglect of this generally renders enquiry impossible. When correspondence has been missent or delayed (both of which are liable to happen occasionally) all that the complainant need do is to write on the cover, Sent to........., or Delivered at........., or Not received till the ...th instant, or as the case may be, and forward it, without any note or letter whatever, to the Post- master General. Attention to this would save much writing and needless trouble.
Dimensions, Weights, and Contents of Correspondence.
3. No articles of correspondence, unless to or from a Government Office, must exceed the following measurement:-2 feet long, 1 foot wide, 1 foot deep. There is no limit to the weight of letters, but the weights of other articles (except official correspondence) are limited as follows:- To British Offices. To other Offices.
Books or Papers.... Patterns
...5lb... ..5lb...
4lb.
..8oz.
Pattern Packets for non-British offices must not exceed these dimensions, 8 inches by 4 inches by 2 inches.
4. No letter or packet, whether to be registered or unregistered, can be received for Postage (except by local parcel post) if it contains gold or silver money, jewels, precious articles, or anything that, as a general rule, is liable to Customs duties. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity sent be so small as to make the sample of no value.
5.-The following articles cannot be sent by post at all: glass, liquids, gunpowder, matches, indigo, dye-stuffs, sugar, soap, candles or whatever is dangerous to the mails, or offensive or injurious to persons dealing with them. There is no objection to the transmission of empty match boxes, or of imitation matches, the heads of which are made of sealing wax or other harmless matter. They should be distinctly marked, Echantillon, Allumettes non inflammables, or Pattern, Imitation matches only, otherwise the packet will not be forwarded.
How to Address Correspondence.
6. The address and the Postage stamps should always be on the same side of the corres- pondence the side opposite to the seal or fastening. Legible handwriting is of course of great importance.
* Open a cover about which you intend to complain by cutting along the top, to tear it in all directions much complicates matters.
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