HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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payment. It is obvious therefore that this Office cannot allow its free receipts to be used to found complaints on. If that is intended the correspondence should be registered.
116. It is no part of the duties of the Post Office to affix stamps to correspondence, or to see that servants purchase or affix the proper amounts, nor can the officers of the Department, under any circumstances, undertake to do this.
117.-Any article of correspondence duly prepaid and posted becomes the property of the addressee, and cannot be returned to the sender, nor can it be detained, without the written authority of the Governor of Hongkong or of Her Majesty's Consul at the Port, on an application stating fully the reasons for the request.
PARCEL POST.
118.—To the United Kingdom and Places beyond.-- Parcels are forwarded by P. & O. packet only, and arrive in London about eight days later than the mail. No further charge is made on delivery except for Customs dues.
Cigars....
Duties in the United Kingdom, .50 per lb.
Tea..
....4d. per lb.
119.-Any person sending a parcel to either of the places named below (viå London) many relieve the addressee of the payment of Customs and other charges :-
The United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Iceland), Egypt, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Italy (via Belgium, Ger- many and Switzerland only), Luzemburg, Montenegro, Barbados, Cyprus, Cape Colony, Falkland Islands, Gambia, Grenada, Lagos, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Sweden, Tobago.
Any person wishing to defray the above charges must endorse the parcel "to be delivered free of all charge." He must sign a declaration that he will pay the amount due on such parcel as soon as it has been ascertained. He may, if necessary, be called upon to pay a deposit in addition to signing the declaration. Such deposit to be paid by means of postage stamps to be affixed to the declaration.
In addition to the postage and insurance fee, if any, a fee of 25 cents will be charged on every parcel for which the sender desires these facilities. This fee will be paid by means of postage stamps to be affixed to the declaration.
120.— To India.-By P. & O. and Indian Mail packets only. Insured Parcels by Indian Mail packets only.
121.-Parcels for the United Kingdom and the undermentioned places (viâ London) may be insured at the following rates :—
$120.
240
360
480.
800.
List of places :-
Foreign Countries. Austria-Hungary Belgium Cameroons Denmark
Egypt Germany Luxemburg
And up to
$120).
240.
360.
For
fee 20 cents
$ 720.
"
30 40
840.
19
960,
50
..
34
60
19
**
1,080. 1,200.
fee
.70 cents .80
"
19
.90 * $1.00
1 10
Norway
Russia Sweden Switzerland
British Possessions and Protectorates. Leeward Islands Bermuda
British Guiana
British North Borneo Gambia
Newfoundland
Niger Coast Protectorate St. Lucia
Tobago Trinidad Zanzibar
*
fee 20 cents
30 40
"
- 480.
500.
fee
50 cents 60
**
India (Direct)
Burmah
Aden
Ascension
Bahamas
...
British Guiana.
viâ India
viâ London
Cyprus
Falkland Islands
Lagos. Mombasa
St. Helena
Windward Islands J
viâ London
122.-Parcels addressed to Holland, Italy (viâ Belgium), or Montenegro cannot be insured for more than $400, or to the Azores, Algeria or Tunis, Beyrout, Constantinople, Finland, France, Italy (via France), Madeira, Portugal, Roumania, Servia, Smyrna, for more than $200.
123.-The rates of postage are indicated in the following tables :-
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