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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.
or pasteboard, bearing his employer's name in English and Chinese. This will enable him to obtain letters whenever a mail arrives.
89.-The advantages of renting a box are many. It secures a quicker and more accurate delivery of correspondence. Unpaid letters are delivered to boxholders without the delay of demanding payment, change, &c., as they are charged to his account. The boxholders of Hong- kong and Shanghai send bags down in the mail steamer to be filled by the marine officer. Box- boxes, and to mark their Postage holders are allowed to post their letters in sealed boxes, and Stamps. They receive free copies of all notices issued by the Post Office, Tables of Rates, &c. Many inconveniences are saved to them by the facility for charging their accounts with small deficiencies of postage, when there is no time to return a short-paid letter. This, however, is only done as an exception, when the letter connot go on unpaid, no boxholder being allowed to make a practice of sending short-paid correspondence, or letters to be stamped. Boxholders are also allowed certain privileges as to posting local correspondence unstamped (see paragraph 93).
90.-Boxholders' books are sent out for settlement on the first day of each month, and should be returned promptly. As a general rule no information can be given as to the corres- pondence charged in these accounts, where it came from, &c. There is only one way to obtain such information, and that is to file the covers of all unpaid correspondence received. Entries On Board are for unpaid correspondence dealt with by the Marine Officer on his way up from Singapore.
Local Delivery (Hongkong.)
91.-All correspondence posted before 5 P.M. on any week day for addresses in Victoria will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, unless the delivery should be retarded by the contract mails. Correspondence for the Peak, Kowloon Point, or steamers in harbour is delivered twice daily except on Sundays.
92.-No delivery is attempted at any private house (even though named in the address) when there is a place of business nearer at which delivery can be effected.
93. Circulars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, Patterns, Bills, Almanacs, &c., for addressees in Hongkong, or the Ports of China, in batches of not less than ten of uniform size and weight, may be sent to the Post Office unstamped, the postage, at the rate of one cent each, being paid in cash or charged to the sender's account. Special accounts may be opened with non-boxholders for the delivery of considerable numbers of such articles.
94. Such covers, when addressed to places other than Hongkong or China, must be prepaid two cents each in stamps.
95.-Circulars, &c., must not exceed 2 ounces each in weight. Patterns, Almanacs, &c., must be under 4 ounces each in weight. Heavier articles are charged ordinary rates.
96.-Envelopes containing patterns, &c., may be wholly closed if the nature of the contents be first exhibited or stated to the Postmaster General, as he may consider necessary, and approved by him. Printed Circulars may be inserted in such Pattern Packets.
97.-Addresses must be complete. That is to say, on such covers as are not addressed to heads of houses, the addressee's residence or place of business must be added. Incompletely addressed covers are returned to the sender for address.
98. The above mentioned classes of correspondence are invariably delivered at places of business unless special arrangement is made for delivery at private houses.
Such arrangements can only be made subject to the general work of the Post Office.
99.-Rates of Postage in Hongkong, and at British Post Offices in China:-
Between Hongkong, Canton and Macao.3 (8.)
and for local delivery......
To China or from China to Hongkong.
(0.17
LETTERS PER OZ.
POST
BOOKS & NEWS'FX8. CARDS,
PATTERNS & PRICES PBR 2 OZ. EACH.
CURRENT, ZACH. (d.)
XRGIS- TRATION.
RETURN RECEIPT FŐB
REGISTERED ARTICLE.
cents.
cents.
cents.
cents.
cents,
cents.
2
1
2
2
5
5
Cochin-China,
Cores,
JJ
..
Japan,
Philippine Islands
Biam direct...
(c.)
Tonquin
To Australia....
VIA TOBBEŠ ŠTRAITS..
.(b.)
10
CANNOT
New Zealand
11
Tasmania.........
BB
1
Fiji
VIA CEYLON
To Natal and Cape Colony......................................
To all other places.........
SENT.
16
CANNOT BE
30
SENT.
10
3
(2.)
5
(3.)
10
NÓT IBSU】D.
10
NOT ISSURD.
10
(e)
(a.) REGISTRATION IN CHINA extends to Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, and Hankow only. (b) Prepayment is compulsory. (e.) Letters for Siam vid Singapore, 10 cents per half ounce.
(d) Not to exceed 4 oz. in weight, otherwise the rate is per 4 oz. for newspapers, and per 2 oz. for other printed matter (.) Cannot be sent to Countries not in the Postal Union.
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