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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
17 --The fee for a permit is $60 a year. No Permit is issued for a period less than twelve months, and 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.
Is.-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 :--
Postage Stamps—
1
cent
2
";
19
8
"
10
**
12
"
20
"
30
19
50
1 dollar. 2 dollars.
3
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**
5
10
"1
Post Cards-
I cent.
2 cents (with reply paid).
4 cents.
8 cents (with reply paid). Wrappers-
2 cents.
Embossed Envelopes-
4 cent size 9
4
13
Envelopes are sold in packets of 5, and in addition to the par value of thestamps 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:-
-comm
F. 5 ins. x 3 ins. G-6
H. -8 H2-9
K-11
3
""
5
4
"
6
*1
"
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 recommended to mark their stamps by perforation with minute holes, such holes being not larger than the holes separating one stamp from another.
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 (21d.) each in any country participating in the arrangement can be purchased at the General Post Office for 12 cents each for the purpose of prepaying replies to letter. The coupons can be exchanged by the addressee of such letters at certain Post Offices for local postage stamps.
DESPATCH
22.-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 and French Contract Packets are closed as follows when the steamer leaves at noon, viz.
Letters.....
11 a.m.
II a.m. to noon.
Late Letters with Late fee of 10 cents 24.-Mails by American, Canadian, Indian or Australian packets for the Siberian route to Europe 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., or as notified.
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 GermanContract 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 a quarter of an hour before closing the ordinary mails.
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