HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.
This edition of the Postal Guide has been re-arranged in a form which it is hoped will be found more convenient for reference than that previously existing. It is requested that any difficulty experienced in using it may be notified, with a view to the improvement of future issues.
This reprint supersedes all previous issues of the Postal Guide, and is the only authorised complete summary of Postal regulations. Whilst always willing to supply information in other ways, the Department declines responsibility for errors in replies to oral applications (especially if addressed to Chinese) or notes to subordinate officers. The Chinese Shroffs at the windows are placed there to sell stamps, not to decide what is correct postage, nor to answer enquiries, for which they are not. competent.
HONGKONG, January 1st, 1893.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
PAGE
Offices.
Business hours
Holidays
XX
XX
Poste Restante Letters
..xxiv
..xxiv
XX
Newspapers.
.XXV
Deliveries
Pillar Boxes..
Postage Stamps Rates of Postage
XX
Books
XXV
xxi
Patterns
...... XXV
.xxi
Circulars and Prices Current.
.xxvi
.xxi
Post Cards
.xxvi
Mail Routes....
xxii
Registration
.xxvi
Mail Time Tables
.xxii
Miscellaneous
.xxvii
Forbidden Articles........
.xxiii
Parcel Post
.xxvii
Requests
.xxiii
Money Orders
...XXX
Complaints
.xxiii
Postal Notes
.xxxi
Private Boxes
.xxiv
GENERAL INFORMATION.
OFFICES.
1.-The Head Office for British Postal business in China is at Hongkong; there is à Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places : Canton, Hoihow, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Hankow.
BUSINESS Hours.
2.-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on Week days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.m. In the event of a contract mail arriving after the ordinary business hours, the office is opened for the delivery of correspondence as soon as possible after the mails have been landed, and will be kept open for one hour.
HOLIDAYS.
3.-Sundays and all Public and Government Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and except the departure of a contract mail happens to be fixed for a Public or Government Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching the mail.
DELIVERIES.
4.-The following are the hours at which delivery of correspondence takes place from the General Post Office :-
In Town, 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.
In the Suburbs, 9 a.m., noon, 5 p.m.
At Kowloon and the Peak, noon, 4 p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays deliveries are effected at 9 a.m. in the town and suburbs. There is no Sunday delivery at Kowloon or the Peak.
Contract mails are, however, delivered as soon as possible after arrival. The ordinary deliveries may be retarded by the contract mails.
To Shipping.
5.-As a general rule correspondence for shipping in harbour is delivered to the agents, but if desired it will be delivered on board at noon and 4 p.m.
PILLAR BOXES.
6.-Pillar Letter Boxes have been placed at the following localities and are cleared daily at the following hours, except on Sundays and Holidays:-
Town District.
From Ship Street to Bonham Strand West and up to level of Robinson Road.
Clearances: 8.30 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 0.30 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4.30 p.m.
Pillar Box No. 7....... Victoria, junction of Queen's Road East and Arsenal Street. 8............Victoria, near the Harbour Master's Office.
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Victoria, junction of Albany, Robinson and Garden Roads. 10............Victoria, junction of Seymour and Castle Roads.
Victoria, junction of Old Bailey and Caine Road.
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