HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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(e) Any indecent or obscene print, painting, photograph, lithograph, engrav- ing, book, or carl, or any other indecent or obscene article, or any letter, newspaper, or publication, packet or card, having thereon any words, marks, or designs, of an indecent, obscene, libellous or grossly
offensive character.
102. It is forbidden to insert in ordinary or registered correspondence consigned to the post-
(a) Current coin.
(b) Articles liable to Customs duty.
(c) Gold or silver bullion, precious stones, jewellery and other precious
articles.
If contrary to this rule such articles above described or any uncrossed Postal Notes, Cheques or Dividend Warrants, not payable to order, Bank Notes and Postage Stamps, used or unused, be found enclosed in unregistered correspondence when opened in the Returned Letter Office, such correspondence will be subject to Compulsory Registration and be charged with a registration fee of 20 cents.
REDIRECTION AND INTERCEPTION
103.-Letters, book packets, post cards, newspaper and book packets are not liable to additional postage for re-direction whether re-directed by an officer of the Post Office or by an agent of the addressees after delivery, provided in the latter case that the letters, &c., are re-posted not later than the day (Sundays and public holidays not being counted) after delivery, and that they do not appear to have been opened or tam- pered with. Re-directed registered letters must not be dropped into a letter box but inust be handed to an officer of the Post Office to be dealt with as registered.
104. Re-directed letters, &c., which are re-posted later than the day after delivery will be liable to charge at the prepaid rate. Any which appear to have been opened or tampered with will be chargeable as freshly posted unpaid letters or packets.
105.-Parcels are when re-directed liable to additional postage at the prepaid rate for each re-direction except when the original and corrected addresses are both within a delivery of the same Post Office.
106.-Letters and all other postal packets, provided that they are directed to an addressee living within the Hongkong Postal Administration may, on payment of the following fees to be paid by means of Postage stamps affixed to the request for interception, be intercepted at Hongkong or Shanghai and delivered to the addresses at such place as he shall request, viz:—
By any particular contract mail steamer from
Europe
By any vessel from any port during the course
of one calendar month
$1.00
$5.00
107.-Interceptions shall be made when practicable, but the fees so paid shall not entitle the persons applying to have their mail matter intercepted to claim as of right the interception of all or any particular postal packet addressed to them.
108.--The Postmaster-General shall not be bound to entertain any request for interception unless such request is accompanied by the above prescribed fees. Corres- pondence directed to care of boxholders in Hongkong must, without exception, be delivered as addressed.
109.-Requests for the redirection or interception of correspondence must be in writing. The precise address of the correspondence must be given.
110.-No request for redirection will be acted upon for more than three months, at the end of which time the correspondence resumes its usual course,
POSTE RESTANTE
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111.--All letters and other Postal packets superscribed "To be kept till called for, "To await arrival," or in any similar way, and also those addressed “Post Office," or "Hongkong" without any other address are held to fall under the head "Poste Restante." 112. When correspondence is received addressed to parties in "Hongkong" with- out a full address and no request has been received from the addressce regarding it or his name does not appear in the Directory, such correspondence will be placed in Poste Restante.
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