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HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE

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150.- Whe: parcels are posted to be sent vid San Francisco or Seattle, or to the Philippines or Honolulu :-

(a) The contents of all such Parcels must be specially declared, and must if over $200 H.K. currency in value be accompanied with a U.S. Consular invoice.

(b) The weight must not exceed 11 lb.

(c) Parcels must not be sealed.

(d) Parcels cannot be registered or insured and no compensation is payable should any such be lost or damaged when forwarded by

this route.

REGISTRATION.

151.-The registration fee for each letter or other postal packet is 10 cents. The registration fee, and the postage on a registered packet, must be prepaid,

Letters, post-cards, printed papers, commercial papers, literature for the blind and patterns or samples may be registered for transmission to nearly every country.

152.-The postage and registration fee must be prepaid in postage stamps which must be affixed to the upper right hand corner of the address side of the article to be registered.

153.-Articles addressed in pencil, except copying ink pencil, are not admitted to registration. The use of initials, figures, Christian names without surnames, fictitious names or conventional marks of any kind is not admitted for addressing registered articles. The full address must be written in Roman characters on the envelope or cover and the word "Registered" must be written or printed at the top of the address side of the cover or wrapper. No letter presented for registration may show any trace of opening and reclosing before posting.

154.-Articles intended for registration must be presented at the counter ot a Post Office and a receipt obtained for them. They must on no account be dropped into a letter-box.

155.-If an article bearing the word "Registered" or any other word, phrase, or mark to the like effect, or a Registration envelope intended by the sender to go forward as an ordinary letter, be dropped into a letter box, it will be compulsorily registered and taxed with double the deficiency as regards postage and registration fee.

156. No registered article will be delivered to the addressee until he, or his representative, shall have signed with ink or copying ink pencil, a receipt in the prescribed form, which will be presented to him for signature, together with the relative "Advice of Receipt", if there be one. If the Postmaster General is not satisfied of the identity of the person claiming a registered article he may require, in addition to the signature of the person, the "chop" of a well-known firm.

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