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HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE

85.-Postal packets addressed to initials or to fictitious names or to a Christian name without a surname are not taken in at the Poste Restante but are at once sent to the Returned Letter Office for disposal.

86.-All persons applying for letters at the Poste Restante must furnish the particulars required to ensure proper delivery. If the addressee does not apply in person, his messenger must be furnished with the required information and must produce a written authority to receive the correspondence. If a foreigner, the applicant must produce his passport or other credentials.

Redirection,

87.-Letters, Postcards, Printed papers, Commercial papers and Sample packets are not liable to additional postage for redirection, whether redirected by an officer of the Post Office or by an agent of the addressees after delivery, provided in the latter case that the articles are reposted not later than the day (Sundays and public holidays not being counted) after delivery, and that they do not appear to have been opened or tampered with. In cases however where an article is redirected to any place, and bears postage stamps insufficient to pay the postage from the office of origin to the said place direct, then the extra postage must be affixed before reposting or the article will be surcharged,

88.-Redirected letters &c., which are reposted later than the day after delivery will be liable to charge at the prepaid rate. Any which appear to have been opened or tampered with will be chargeable as freshly posted unpaid letters or packets.

89.-Parcels are when redirected liable to additional postage at the prepaid rate for each redirection except when the original and corrected addresses are both within a delivery of the same Post Office.

90.-Correspondence directed to care of boxholders in Hong Kong must with- out exception, be delivered as addressed. The Post Office does not undertake the redirection of correspondence for a person temporarily leaving home, unless the house be uninhabited; nor does it undertake to redirect correspondence addressed to clubs, hotels, boarding houses, lodgings, business firms, &c. Correspondence may not be redirected from a private address to the Poste Restante in the Colony.

91.-Requests for the redirection of correspondence must be in writing. The precise address of the correspondence must be given. No request for re- direction will be acted upon for more than three months, at the end of which time the correspondence resumes its usual course.

92.-Correspondence returned to the senders that they may rectify or com- plete the address is not, when reposted, treated as redirected, but as liable to fresh postage.