District.
No. of Pillar Box.
12
6
5
7
13
-8
13
9
13
10
11
11
10
12
9
13
HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Locality.
CITY OF VICTORIA.
East Point junction of Percival Street and Praya. Junction of Queen's Road East and Arseħal Street. Near Harbour Master's Office.
West Point, Near No. 7 Police Station.
Junction of Robinson and Bonham Roads.
Junction of Albany, Robinson and Garden Roads. Junction of Seymour and Castle Roads. Junction of Old Bailey and Caine Roads.
IN KOWLOON.
Cosmopolitan Dock.
Hung-Hom Dock.
Yaumati Police Station.
14
15
16
17
Yaumati Gas Works.
18
Junction of Cameron and Carnarvon Roads.
419
9.-Letters containing any article of value should not be posted in a Pillar Box but should be registered at the General or Branch Post Office.
10.-Persons posting in these boxes may cancel their stamps by writing the date across them.
PRIVATE BOXES.
11.-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.
12. 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. They should be without strings, but have a couple of iron rings at the mouth for suspending. Boxholders should insist on their coolies returning these bags to the Post Office as soon as emptied, or at any rate not later than next morning. The only safe way to empty a bag is to turn it inside out.
13. Each boxholder's coolie will be provided with a stout ticket of pasteboard, bearing his employer's name in English and Chinese. This will enable him to obtain letters whenever a mail arrives and ensure that no coolie can wrongly obtain letters.
14.-The advantages of renting a box are many. It secures a quicker and more accurate delivery of correspondence. Boxes are required to be cleared by Boxholders on the arrival of European and American Mails; on ordinary days delivery will be made by postmen unless boxholders desire that their daily correspondence should remain in their boxes to be cleared by themselves. Access to the boxes will be afforded to the boxholders between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily except on Sundays, when the time will be between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Unpaid letters are delivered to boxholders with- out the delay of demanding payment, change, &c., as they are charged to the account. The boxholders of Hongkong and Shanghai send bags down in the mail steamer to be filled. Boxholders are allowed to post their letters in sealed boxes* and to mark their Postage Stamps. They receive free copies of all notices issued by the Post Office, Tables of Rates, &c.
15.-Boxholders' books are sent out for settlement on the first day of each month and should be returned promptly. As a general rule no information can be given as to the correspondence charged in these accounts, where it came from, &c. There is only one way to obtain such information, and that is to file the covers of all unpaid corres- pondence received. Entries On Board are for unpaid correspondence dealt with by the marine officer on his way up from Singapore.
• The boxes should be closed with some recognizable real. Locked boxes cannot be allowed. A receipt book should be sent with each box, but as the receiving officer cannot undertake to count the correspondence sent, he only gives a receipt for One Box. No attention is promised to anything written in the book-To be Registered for instance.
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