HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
District.
No. of Pillar Box.
10
12
9
13
13
19
9626
20
21
26
27
Junction of Seymour and Castle Roads.
Junction of Old Bailey and Caine Roads.
Park View
Ladder Street
Macdonnell Road
Pedder Street Ferry Wharf
Lower Tram Station
IN KOWLOON
Cosmopolitan Dock.
Hung-Hom Dock.
Yaumati Police Station.
15
14
15
15
15
16
15
17
15
18
15
25
Junction of Cameron and Carnarvon Roads. Kowloon Ferry Wharf
Yaumati Gas Works.
16
22
17
23
12
24
IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS
Pokfulam.
Kowloon City.
Quarry Bay.
539
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 Offices and a receipt obtained for the same.
PRIVATE BOXES
10-Private boxes may be rented in the General Post Office, Hongkong. The fee is $10 a year, payable in advance.
11. Each boxholder is supplied with a key and an account book free, but must him- self provide at least two stout bags 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. Box- holders 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.
12.-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 is afforded to boxholders in Hongkong at all hours. Unpaid letters are delivered to boxholders without the delay of demanding payment, change, &c., as they are charged to the account. The boxholders of Hongkong send bags down in the mail steamer to be filled. Box- holders are allowed to post their letters in sealed boxes*.
13.-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.
PRIVATE LETTER BOXES BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON
14.-Private Letter Boxes may be placed on board the River Steamers belonging to or managed by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam Boat Company, Limited, running between Hongkong and Canton.
15-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.
The boxes should be closed with some recognizable seal. Locked boxes cannot be allowed, A receipt book gives a receipt for One Box. girl be sent with each box, but as the receiving, oficer cannot undertake to count the correspondence sent, he only No attention is promised to anything written in the book- To be Registered, for instance.
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