HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.
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126.-Sams not exceeding $0 may be remitted between the Ports of China by means of Postage stamps, subject to a charge of one per cent. for cashing them.
127. POSTAL NOTES of the values named below, payable within three months at any Post Office in the United Kingdom, at Gibraltar, or at Constantinople, ese be obtained at Hongkong or at any British Post Office in China (except Hoihow and Tientsin) at the following prices, which include commission :
1/G 5/
FEL
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30 cents. 45
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$1.45.
$2,85.
$6.60.
10/ 20/
All money orders on the United Kingdom för anms not exceeding £5 applied for at Hongkong or Sanghai are granted by means of these Notes.
128. The purchaser of any Postal Note should keep a memorandum of i's date and number. He must fill in the Payee's naine before parting with it He may also fill in the name of the Office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the note is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom, at Gibraltar, or at Constantinople. Any Postal Note may be crossed to a Bank.
129.-Postal Notes should always be forwarded in Registered Covers. If this precantion is not taken NO ENQUIRIES WHATEVER can be made as to the loss or alleged loss of any Note, No refund can be made in any case,
13-Postal Notes issued in the United Kingdom are not payable in Hongkong or China.
Miscellaneous Suggestions and Regulations.
131.-It is most desirable that every letter, hook, or pattern packet should bear the sender's name and address, as well outside as inside. If every letter were marked outside with the name and address of the sender, no letter need over be opened under any circumstances.
132.-Letters addressed to clubs, hotels, mercantile houses, &c., to be called for, should be returned to the Post Office as soon as it becomes evident they will not be called for. No refund of postage will be mad after three months.
133.-Unclaimed littera are advertised for 2 months (or 3 if for sailing ships) after which, if still unclaimed, they are returned to the country where they originated. Local letters are kept one month. Telegrams are returned to the office which posted them after three days. Dead Letters (ie those returned from other countries to Hongkong) are returned at once to the writers, if their addresse be discoverable on the outsid s. If not, they are advertised for 20 days, then opened if still unclaimed, and returned to the writers if they can be found. If not they are destroyed.
156.—The Tax Office is not responsible for loss of, or injury to corespondence, even if regia- tered. (See, however, paragraph 67).
135. No Postmaster or agent is allowed to give any information as to correspondence passing through his hands.
186,-Scaling wax ought never to be veel on the outside of correspondence unless covered with tissue paper: as a means of securing the safety of the correspondence it is worthless. There is probably only one way of closing up correspondence so that it cannot be opened with- out detection, this is to use this but tough envelopes (the thicker the envelope the easier it is to open) closed wit' gum, over which a stamp is applied in aniline or other soluble colour, which will fly (ie., aprend about) if moisture or steam be applied to it. Scaling war in this climate simply becomes a flat cake, the impression entirely disappearing.
137.—As a general rule, only clean Mexican dollars, or other current tender, can be taken at the Post Offices and Agencies, nor can chang· be supplied. At the Hongkong office, sovereigns are taken on request and chang is generally to be had, but copper cash are not taken, nor are servants allowed to pay sums of ten cents or more in copper without a no'e from their employers. No postal officer in bound to give change, or to weigh correspondence, but he ought not to refuse to do the lifter unless pressed for time.
18%. —When correspondence is missing, time may be saved by at once sending information to the Postmater-G neval, Hongkong, in the following form, or as near it as possible. If fall information be not given, enquiries cannot be maile.
Description
Containing Addressed
Posted at
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Bender', Name and Address.
EXAMPLE.
I ordinary letter.
Bill of Exchange for £115.
Messrs. Saddler and Thompson, 75, Great Tower Street, London, E.C. Foochow, on the 5th August, 1875, to go via Brindisi.
William Green, Foockow.
139 —Any complaint as to overcharge, delay, miszonding, &c, must be accompanied by the cover of the correspondence.
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140. When correspondence bas bean missent or delayed (both of which are liable to happen occasionally) all that the complainant need do is to write on the cover, Bent to, or Delivered
Or Registered as the case may be. Or 1 Newspaper, Book-packet, or Pattern Packet, secording to the nature
of the correspondence missing.