General Post-Office, Hongkong.
RATES OF POSTAGE, NOTICES, &c.
REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL ON THE
18тH DECEMBER, 1875.
POST-OFFICE NOTICES.
Colonial Postage Stamps may be purchased at the General Post-Office. The Stamps represent the following amounts in value:-
2 Cents..........
246
8
12
"
.1 Penny. 18 Cents............. 9 Pence.
2 Dollars...
.2 Pence.
24
"
3
30
48 96
**
1 Shilling. ...15 Pence.
2 Shillings. 4
3
•
10
"
4
6
Duty Stamps now used for the payment of postage.
It must be understood that the above Postage Labels are available only for correspondence posted at the General Post-office in Hongkong, or its Agencies at Canton, Macao, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Shanghai, Ningpo, Hankow, Hiogo, Nagasaki, and Yokohama, and that except in the case of correspondence sent by Officers and Seamen serving on board Her Majesty's Ships, British Postage Stamps are not available for the payment of postage.
No credit can be given to these Stamps on correspondence addressed to places to which the postage cannot be prepaid in Hongkong.
All correspondence for places to which prepayment is compulsory must be prepaid in Hongkong Postage Stamps.
Insufficiently Stamped Letters addressed to the United Kingdom will be sent on charged with a fine of One Shilling in addition to the Postage.
Hongkong money only (including Mexican dollars of full weight) can be received. Change will be given when possible, but cannot be demanded as of right.
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 Fee.
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 coin, the amount charged will be refunded.
Correspondence intended to be forwarded to the United Kingdom in the mails by the French Packets may be posted at the British Post Offices at Shanghai and Yokohama, and the same will be forwarded in closed Mails to London.
The rates of postage on such Correspondence, which must be paid in the Postage Stamps of this Colony, are the same as those which govern the Correspondence forwarded in the mails by the British Contract Packets.
Many persons are in the habit of addressing Correspondence, for well-known Firms and Individuals, London only; but this practice not unfrequently occasions delay in the delivery of such Correspondence. In all cases, however well a Firm or Individual may be known, it is most essential, to ensure correct and prompt delivery, that the street and the number of the house, should be stated on each letter, &c.
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