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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
28.-Registered nails are closed a quarter of an hour before the ordinary mails, except in the case of mails for Europe, of America and Australia, when the period is three-quarters of an hour.
29.-Letters and Post-cards to Europe are sent via Siberia unless marked to the contrary. Printed matter is sent via Suez unless prepaid at letter rate.
30.-Correspondence marked for transmission by a certain route will be kept for the route indicated even though this may involve considerable delay.
31.-Correspondence specially directed for any particular steamer is sent by her (failing any request to the contrary), however many times her departure may be postponed. If it is postponed sine die the correspondence is sent on by the next opportunity.
32.-Relates to Official franking of letters in Hongkong.
Letters
33.-No letter may exceed 2 feet in length, 1 foot in width or 1 foot in depth, unless it be sent to or from a Government Office.
34. Addresses should be as complete as possible in order to facilitate delivery. In order that, in the event of the letter becoming from any cause undeliverable, it may be returned to the writer unopened, it is recommended that the sender's name and address be also superscribed on the cover.
35.-Insufficiently paid correspondence must be either accepted and the fine paid or forthwith refused. Postmen are not allowed to permit a previous inspection of the contents of unclosed printed matter, packets, etc.
36.-The general rule as to insufficiently paid letters is to double the deficient postage. Nothing can be sent wholly unpaid except Letters and Post-cards.
37.-Consignees' letters, being privileged by law, need not be sent to the Post Office at all, but if they are sent they are liable to ordinary rates of postage. Such letters must refer only to cargo carried on the same ship on which they are carried, and must be left open for inspection.
38.-Correspondence on Savings Bank business if posted in Hongkong or at any of the Agencies in China and addressed "Hongkong Savings Bank" will be forwarded free.
39.-In the event of an unpaid letter becoming a dead letter, the sender is liable, according to international rules, to pay the deficient postage and the fine.
40.-Complants, etc., addressed to the Postmaster-General need not be Stamped.
Newspapers
41.-Newspapers should be so folded and covered (if posted in a cover) as to permit the title to be easily inspected. Newspapers must be open at both ends, and the postage stamps so affixed that they do not bind the wrapper to the newspaper.
42.-Newspapers published in Hongkong and posted singly to the following places are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 oz. or fraction thereof, viz.:-Australia, Canada, Ceylon, China, Corea. Formosa, India, Japan, Macao, Netherlands India, New Zealand, Philippines Islands, Siam, Straits Settlements, Timor and United Kingdom.
43.-A bundle of newspapers may be prepaid at so much each (and each one must count, however small), or the whole may be paid at book rate.
44.-Two newspapers must not be folded together as one if intended for trans- mission at the single rate, nor must anything whatever be inserted except bond-fide supplements of the same paper and same date. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed if the whole be paid at book rate.
45.-A newspaper or a packet of newspapers posted insufficiently paid will on delivery be charged with double the deficiency. Unpaid newspapers cannot be forwarded.
46.-No newspaper and no cover of a newspaper may bear anything (not being part of the newspaper) except the names and addresses of the sender and the addressee, a request for return in case of non-delivery, or the title of the newspaper. If it contains any written communication whatever it will be charged as a letter.
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