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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
POSTAGE STAMPS, POST CARDS, WRAPPERS AND ENVELOPES,
19.-Hongkong Postage Stamps, Wrappers and Envelopes of the following values can be purchased and are available at any British Post Office or Agency in Hongkong or China:--
Postage Stamps-
1 cent
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4
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8
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10
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12
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20
77
30
2 cents (with reply paid). 4 cents.
8 cents (with reply paid). Wrappers-
2 cents.
4
Embossed Envelopes-
1 cent size 8)
2 cents 81
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value of the stamps embossed thereon, 1 cent is charged per packet of 5 envelopes. Registration Envelopes bearing a 10 cents stamp, embossed on the flap for the payment of the registration, fee are sold at 11 cents each, and are of the following sizes :-
F.-5 ins. X G.-6
ins.
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1 dollar.
2 dollars.
3
5 10
5 cents size 91
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Post Cards—
1 cent.
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Envelopes are sold in packets
of 5,and in addition to the par
Books of Stamps (containing 12
four cents, 12 two cents, and 16 one cent) at $1.
20.--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.
21.--Correspondence will not be stamped at the Post Office and charged to a boxholder's account.
DESPATCH.
22.-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.
23.-As a general rule the Mails for Europe by English, French and German Contract Packets are closed as follows when the steamer leaves at noon, viz :—
Letters
Late Letters with Late fee of 10 cents..
.......11 a.m. ..11 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
24.-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.
25.--When private steamers leave at noon of the days of departure of Contract Packets, mails by such steamers are closed at 10 a.m.
26. The mails for Shanghai, &c., by English, French and German Contract Packets from Europe are closed one hour before time of departure.
27.-Correspondence can be registered for contract mails to Europe, Canada, and America up to one hour before the time of closing; with a late fee of 10 cents registered articles for despatch by such packets will be accepted up to a quarter of an hour before the time of closing the ordinary mail; registered mails to Shanghai, Japan, Straits, India, Manila and Australia, by other than contract packets, close half an hour before the ordinary mail, and to the coast ports up to a quarter of an hour before closing the ordinary mails.
28.-Correspondence specially directed for any particular steamer is sent by her (failing any request to the contrary), however many times her departure may be postponed. If it is postponed sine die the correspondence is sent on by the next. opportunity.
29.--Correspondence marked via Brindisi or via Marseilles will be KEPT FOR THE ROUTE INDICATED even though that may involve a fortnight's detention. Unless this is intended, therefore, the safest direction is "By first mail."
30.-There are two routes to Western Australia, viz., vid Torres Straits and via Colombo. All correspondence will be sent as superscribed.
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