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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
99.-Printed papers which cannot be delivered and which bear the name and address of the sender with a request for their return in case of non-delivery are returned direct to the sender on payment of a second postage. Those bearing no name or request for return are not returned to senders.
100.—All unpaid undelivered letters or post-cards shall be delivered to the senders only on the payment of amount charged thereon.
101.-If contrary to Rule 81 such articles as uncrossed Postal Notes, Cheques or Dividend Warrants, not payable to order, Bank Notes and Postage Stamps, used or unused, be found enclosed in unregistered correspondence when opened in the Returned Letter Office, such correspondence will be subject to Compulsory Registration and be charged with a registration fee of 20 cents.
Certificates of Posting
102.-Contrary to general usage, the Hongkong Post Office will give a Certificate of posting for an ordinary letter to assure the sender his correspondence has not been stolen on the way to the Post. The conditions under which the Certificate will be given are as follows:
(1.) The certificate of posting written in ink must be presented to an officer on duty at the Post Office together with the article to be posted during the hours which the Post Office is open to the public.
(2.) The certificate must contain an exact copy of the address on the article to which it relates and must have a postage stamp value one cent affixed thereto.
(3.) The officer to whom the article and certificate are presented will compare the address on the article with the certificate, and if it be correct will obliterate the postage stamp and impress the date stamp on the certificate and return the certificate to the person posting the article. (4.) The granting of such certificate affords the public an assurance that letters and other articles entrusted to servants and messengers for posting have actually been posted, but implies no responsibility on the part of the Post Office if such articles be lost or damaged in transit.
Miscellaneous
103. The first duty of the Postmaster General is to deliver correspondence as addressed.
104.-Addresses on all classes of correspondence should be plainly written and complete. Chinese correspondence for Non-Chinese places should in all cases bear an English translation of the address.
105.-Every article should bear the name and address of the sender on the lower left-hand corner, in order that the Post Office may be able in case of non delivery to return it unopened and without delay.
106.-Payment of postage cannot be made by means of imperfect or defaced postage stamps. Stamps are considered defaced when marked on the face with any writ- ten, printed, or stamped characters. Stamps may, however, be perforated with initials (but not with names or trade-marks) provided that perforating holes are no larger than those dividing one stamp from another in a sheet of stamps.
107.-Postage should in all cases be fully prepaid. The general rule as to insufficiently prepaid correspondence is to double the deficient postage. Nothing ean be sent wholly unpaid except letters and postcards.
108.-Insufficiently paid correspondence must be either accepted and the postage due paid, or forthwith refused. Postmen are not permitted to allow a prior inspection of the contents of unclosed articles.
109.-In the event of an unpaid letter becoming a dead letter the sender is liable for payment of postage due.
110.-Hongkong Postage stamps overprinted "China" are not available for payment of postage on correspondence posted in Hongkong.
111.-It is no part of the duties of the Post Office to affix stamps to correspondence, or to see that servants purchase or affix the proper amounts, nor can the officers of the Department, under any circumstances, undertake to do this.
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