HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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PARN.
PARB.
PARE
Offices.. Business Hours
Holidays Deliveries
1
Local Parcel Post
82-00
Letters for Russia ..
155
2-3
Registration
91-102
Exceptional Conditions
156
Articles not allowed to be
Letters, etc., irrgularly mark-
6-7
sent by post
103-104
ed value
157
Pillar Boxes
Redirection and Interception 105-110
Letterstoor from Soldiers, etc. 158-160
Private Boxes
9-13
Poste Restante
111-114
Post Cards
161-163
Postage Stamps, Post Cards,
Undelivered Correspondence
115-119
Printed and
Commercial
Wrappers and Envelopes.
14-16
Articles of value
120
Papers
184-174
Despatch
17-27
Miscellaneous
121-123
Patterns and Samples
175-183
Local Postage Rates
28
Local Money
Orders and
Prohibited Articles
184
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Letters
29-37
Postal Rates
129-139
Registration
185-195
Printed matter-newspaper
33-45
Postal Notes
140-151
Insurance of letters
196
Book Packets
46-53
Countries comprised in Postal
General Regulations
107-234
Commercial Papers
54.63
Union..
152
General
235-236
Patterns
64-72
Prices Current and Circulars
Foreign Postage Rates..
153
Foreign Money Orders
237-245
73-70
Post Cards
77-81
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Letters
Imperial Postal Notes
246
154
General
252
OFFICES.
1.--The Head Office for British Postal business in China is in the city of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch offices at West Point, Hongkong and Kowloon. There is a Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places, viz :-
Canton, Hoihow, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Hankow and Liu Kung-tau.
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 sorted, and will be kept open for one hour thereafter.
3.-The Branch Offices are open from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on ordinary days, and from 8 to 9 a.m. on Sundays and Holidays.
HOLIDAYS.
4.-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 mails.
5.-Division of Postal Districts.
DELIVERIES.
6. In districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 15 deliveries will be made at 8 p.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m. on ordinary days.
In districts Nos. 11 (Albany and Peak Road) and 12 (Ship Street to Cancanery Bay Road) at 9 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., and in district No. 14 (Peak) at noon and 4 p.m., the Postmen leaving the Office for the two last named districts at 11.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays deliveries will be made in all districts at 9 a.m. only. Contract mails are, however, delivered as soon as possible after arrival." The ordinary deliveries may be retarded by such mails.
The last delivery of Registered Correspondence is at 4 p.m. There are no deliveries on Chinese New Year's Day.
To Shipping.
7.--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. on week days.
PILLAR BOXES.
8. Pillar Letter Boxes are cleared daily except on Sundays and holidays. Letters containing any article of value should not be posted in a pillar box, but should be registered at the General Post Office.
Persons posting in these boxes may cancel their stamps by writing the date across them. The time of clearing these boxes may sometimes be later than is stated, and, as the postman has to finish his delivery before taking any letters he finds in the boxes to the Post Office, it is in most cases about an hour or more after the box is cleared before such letters reach the General Post Office.
PRIVATE BOXES.
9.-Private boxes may be rented in the General Post Office, Hongkong, and in the Post Office Shanghai. The fee is $10 a year, payable in advance.
10.-Each boxholder is supplied with an account book free, but must himself provide at least two stout bags (Shanghai firms require four), marked with his name in English and Chinese on both sides. Chinese nankin makes the best bags for this purpose.
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