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Any person ordering serviced covers addressed to a local

destination may collect them on May 1, 1975, from the office where

the order was placed.

"Covers addressed overseas will be sent forward by ordinary

post, surface mail, unless sufficient stamps are affixed to cover air

mail, and or registration charges," the spokesman explains. "The Latest

acceptance date for advance orders of serviced covers will be April 28,1975."

A service will be provided on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, at all

post offices to permit first-day covers to 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.

But the spokesman lists these conditions for the service:-

Only articles bearing an indication that they are

'first-day covers' will be so treated.

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The articles must be addressed to local addresses,

The articles must not bear any other cancellation.

No registered items will be processed by this method..

Special posting boxes will also be available at the General Post

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

Office on April 30, 1975, for members of the public who wish to have

first-day covers carefully hand-postmarked before despatch to the address

on the covers.