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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
GENERAL INFORMATION
Office Hours, etc.
1.-The General Post Office is in Pedder Street, with branch offices at Wantsai (Queen's Road East), Sheung Wan (Morrison Street), Sai Ying P'un (Pokfulam Road), Kowloon (Tsimshatsui), and Yaumati (Waterloo Road).
2.--On week days the General Post Office is open for the sale of stamps from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Registration and Parcel Branch is open from 7 a.m to 5 p.m.; the Poste Restante from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and the Money Order Office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., except on Saturdays, when it closes at 1 p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays the General Post Office is open from 8 to 9 a.m. with the exception of the Money Order Office, which is entirely closed.
Note:-Postal Notes can be had at the Registration counter on Saturday after- noon from 1 to 5 p.m.
3. On week days the district offices are open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Kowloon which closes at 5 p.m.
The Kowloon Money Order Office is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays the Wantsai, Sai Ying Pun, and Yaumati district offices are open from 8 to 9 a.m. and 5 to 6 p.m. Sheung Wan from 8 to 9 a.m. and 5.30 to 8 p.m. Kowloon from 8 to 9 a.m.
Note:--(a) The Money Order branch at Kowloon is closed at 1 p.m. on
Saturdays and all day on Sundays and Holidays.
(6) On days when an English or French contract mail is leaving, the
Money Order office at Kowloon will not open until noɔn.
4.-(Relates to the division of the City for delivery purposes.) 5.-(Relates to the hours of deliveries in the various districts.)
6.-(Advocates the provision of Letter Box in offices and houses.)
7.--Correspondence for Shipping in Harbour will be delivered to the Agents, and if there be no Âgents such correspondence will be kept at the Post Office to be claimed.
8.-Enumerates the places where pillar boxes are fixed in Hongkong and
Kowloon.
N.B.-Letters can be posted at any Police Station in the New Territories.
9.-Letters containing any article of value should not be posted in a Pillar Box, but should be registered at the General or a District Post Office and a receipt obtained for the same.
Private Boxes
10-Private boxes may be rented in the General Post Office for fees of $20 and $10 per annum from 1st January or $2 and $1 per mensem, according to size. All fees are payable in advance. Each boxholder is provided with a key and an account book. A sum of $2 must be deposited for the key, and that will be refunded when the box is given up and the key returned.
11. By renting a box, correspondence is received with greater expedition and accuracy. Access to boxes is afforded to boxholders at all hours of the day and night.
12.--Boxes must be cleared by boxholders after the arrival of American and European Mails; otherwise, boxholders may elect to have their correspondence left in their boxes until called for or delivered at their addresses.
13.-Boxholders may send their letters to the post in sealed boxes for which a receipt will be given in the accompanying book. Such receipts are for "one box", not for so many letters. Such boxes should be sealed with a recognized device, and not merely locked. No attention can be paid to such remarks as "to be registered" written in the book.
14.-Unpaid and underpaid correspondence is delivered to boxholders and the deficit charged monthly. As a rule no details of this account can be given and it is advised that the covers of all unpaid correspondence should be filed in order to check this.
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