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Thursday, December 20, 1973

Covers addressed overseas will be sent forward by ordinary post,

surface mail, unless sufficient stamps are affixed to cover airmail and/or

registration charges. The latest acceptance date for advance orders of

serviced covers will be noon on Friday, January 4, 1974.

A service will be provided on Tuesday, January 8, 1974 at all

post offices whereby First Day Covers will be accepted over the counter,

impressed with the normal post office date stamp and handed back to the

person presenting them.

No time type will appear in the postmark. The special conditions

for this service are:-

1) only articles bearing an indication that they are

"First Day Cover" will be so treated;

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the articles must be addressed to a local address;

3) the articles must not bear any other cancellation;

4)

no registered items will be processed by this method.

Special posting boxes will also be available at the General Post

Office, Kowloon Central Post Office and Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office on

January 8, 1974 for those who wish to have First Day Covers carefully

hand-postmarked before despatch to the address on the cover.

Note to Editors: Copies of a photograph of the stamps will

be distributed separately in the press boxes this

evening.

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