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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
ARTICLES OF VALUE.
120.--Neither money nor any another article of value ought to be sent by post except in a registered postal packet and in the case of money by means of a Post Office Money Order or of a Postal Order duly filled up with the name of the payee. Any person who sends money or any other articles of value otherwise runs the risk of losing his property and the Post Office declines all responsibility for such and will make no enquires into alleged losses of such letters.
MISCELLANEOUS.
121.-Contrary to general usage, the Hongkong Post Office will give a receipt of the kind given for a boxholder's box for an ordinary letter, to assure the sender his corre- spondence has not been stolen on the way to the Post. But this receipt is not intended to be used against the Post Office in case the correspondence goes astray. If that is intended the correspondence should be registered.
122. 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.
123. 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 .tating fully the reasons for the request.
124.-Postal officials are not bound to give change, nor are they authorized to demand it; and when money is paid at a Post Office, whether as change or otherwise, no question as to its right amount, goodness or weight can be entertained after it has been removed from the counter.
125.-Postal officials are not bound to weigh for the public letters, books, packets or newspapers brought for the post, but they may do so if their duty be not thereby impeded. This rule does not apply to parcels, which are tested both as to weight and size before being accepted.
126.-No information can be given respecting letters or any other postal packets except to the persons to whom they are addressed, and in no other way is official information of a private character allowed to be made public.
127.-Circulars should be tied in bundles, with all the addresses in one direction, and should be posted as early as possible before the hour fixed for closing, so as to secure due despatch.
128.-The Post Office is not legally liable for any loss or inconvenience which may arise from the damage, delay, non-delivery, mis-sending, or mis-delivery of any letter or other postal packet, but liability for actual loss or damage is accepted on certain condi- tions in the case of parcels and registered packets.
LOCAL MONEY ORDERS AND POSTAL NOTES.
129.-The hours of business at the General Post Office, Hongkong, daily, excepting Saturdays, are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. On the working day next before any contract mail for Europe leaving at noon the Office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Money orders are not sold before noon on Saturdays when the contract mail for Europe leaves at that hour,
130.--Single Money Orders are issued at the General Post Office, Hongkong, and at the British Post Office, Shanghai, at the current rates of exchange for any sum not ex- ceeding $100.
130a-Money Orders are paid at the abovenamed offices and at the several British Postal Agencies in China.
131.-Applications for Money Orders must be made on the printed forms provided for the purpose at the Money Order Offices. The full name and address of both appli- cant and payee should always be given.
132.-Parties procuring Money Orders should examine them carefully to see that they are properly filled up and stamped.
133. When a Money Order is presented for payment at the office upon which it is drawn the Postmaster will use all proper means to assure himself that the applicant is the person named and intended in the advice or is the endorsee of the letter, and upon payment of the order care must be taken to obtain the signature of the payee or of the person authorized by him to receive payment to the receipt on the face of the order.
134.--When a Money Order has been lost by either remitter or payee a
duplicate thereof will be issued by the paying office on payment of a second commission; and
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