HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
POSTAGE STAMPS, POST CARDS, WRAPPERS AND ENVELOPES,
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14.-Hongkong Postage Stamps, Wrappers and Envelopes of the flowing values can be purchased and are available at any British Post Office or Agency in Hongkong or China:-
Postage Stamps---
I cent
5
"
**
8
"9
10
**
12
20
30
50
"1
1 dollar.
dollars.
3 dollars.
5
11
Post Cards--
1 cent.
2 cents (with reply paid).
4 cents.
8 cents (with reply paid).
Wrappers--
2 cents.
4
Embossed Envelopes--
1 cent size 8
2 cents R
11
2 cents size 13
4
"1
4
13
**
"1
""
"
"
10
19
*
10
9:
13
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Registration Envelopes--
10 cents sizes, F. G. H. H'
and K. sold at 11 cents each-
15.--Boxholders are at liberty to mark their Postage Stamps on the back or face or by perforation, so as to prevent their being stolen. If the mark be on the face, it must be such as not to interfere with the clean appearance of the stamps.
16.--Correspondence will not be stamped at the Post Office and charged to a boxholder's account.
DESPATCH.
17.-Tables showing the dates of the departure of the contract mails and the dates when replies to letters are due in Hongkong are published separately. The dates and hours of closing all mails in the General Post Office are also published twice daily in a Special Mail Notice, except on Sundays and Holidays.
IS.--As a general rule the Mails for Europe by English and French Contract Packets are closed as follows when the steamer leaves at noon, viz:-
Circulars Papers
Registration
8 a.m
9.00 a.111.
10 a.m.
11 am.
Registration with Late Fee of 10 cents.......10.45 a.m. Letters
Late Letters with Late Fee of 10 cents 11.10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. 19.--When two or more contract packets are leaving at the same hour the mails are closed a quarter of an hour earlier than usual,
20-Mails by American, Canadian, Indian or Australian packets and by private steamers for Coast and other Ports are closed one hour before the advertised time of departure, except when such steamers leave at daylight, when such mails are closed the evening previous at 5 p.m. When private steamers leave at noon of the days of departure of Contract Packets mails by such steamers are closed at 10 a.m.
21.--The mails for Shanghai, &c., by English and French Contract Packets from Europe are closed one hour before time of departure, as for example:-
If leaving at 5 p.m.
Registration closes at
Registration with Late Fee
.3 p.m. .3.30 p.m.
.3.45 p.m.
Letters and Papers
Late Letters, &c.
.3.40 p.m. to 4 p.m.
If leaving at night or at daylight the following day:--
Registration closes at
Registration with Late Fee
Letters and Papers
Late Letters with Late Fee
4.30 p.m. .4.45 p.m.
.4.30 p.m.
..4.40 p.m. to 5 p.m.
22.-All ordinary correspondence is sent on by the best opportunity of which the prepayment admits, unless especially directed or apparently prepaid for some other
route.
23.-Correspondence specially directed for any particular steamer is sent by her (falling any request to the contrary), however inany times her departure may be postponed." If it is postponed sine die the correspondence is sent on by the next opportunity.
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