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HONGKONG POSTAL. GUIDE
17.-The fee for a permit is 860 a year. No Permit is issued for a period less than twelve months, aud the fee is payable on the 1st January in each year for the twelve months ending the 31st December, following. If, however, the permit is taken at any time after the commencement of the year the proportionate fee may (for convenience of account) be paid for the unexpired period to the 31st December, so that the full fee for the next year may be payable on the 1st January.
18.-The Boxes must not be taken to the Post Office either at Hongkong or Canton, but are to be placed on board and taken off the steamers by the messengers of the Permit-holders.
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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2 cents (with reply paid).
4 cents.
8 cents (with reply paid). Wrappers-
2 cents.
4
Embossed Envelopes-
1 cent size 8ł
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5
11
6
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8
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10
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12
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2
13
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30
50
i dollar.
2 dollars.
4
4
5 cents size 91
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2 cents
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. × G -6
ins.
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H. 8
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H2-9
K.-11
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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 value of thestamps embossed
Books of Stamps (containing 16 four cents, 12 two cents, and 12 one cent) at $1. Reply paid coupons 12 cents
each.
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.
REPLY COUPONS
21A.-Coupons exchangeable for stamps of the value of 25 centimes (24d.) each in any country participating in the arrangement can be purchased at the General Post Office and its agencies in China for 12 cents each for the purpose of prepaying replies to letter. The coupons can be exchanged by the addressee of such letters at the Post Office of the place of destination for local postage stamps.
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 noon by
English and French Mails, and 11 a.m. to 11.30 by German Mail. 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 6 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.
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