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INLAND POST

Redirected packets reposted later than the day after delivery will be liable to be charged at the prepaid rate. Any packet which appears to have been opened or tampered with will be chargeable as freshly posted and unpaid.

In cases where a postal packet is redirected to any place outside the Colony and bears insufficient postage for its second transmission, then the additional postage must be affixed before reposting, or the article will be surcharged.

Redirection of Parcels.

Locally posted parcels addressed to places in Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories which cannot be delivered at the given address, or corrected address within the Colony, are without exception returned to. the sender.

Redirection of Registered Postal Packets.

Any registered packet, on being redirected must not be dropped into a letter box, but must be taken to a post office, to be dealt with as registered. No addi- tional registration fee will be charged if the packet is presented for re-registration not later than the day after delivery; but if it is presented after that time it will be treated as freshly posted, and a fresh registra- tion fee will be payable. As regards postage the rules given above apply.

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If a local registered packet is redirected to address abroad, it becomes liable to the regulations and limitations in force in the International Service.

If any registered packet when redirected, instead of being given back to the Post Office to be dealt with as registered, is dropped into a letter-box, it is treated in all respects as a letter intended for registration but irregularly posted.

Redirection by the Post Office.

Requests for the redirection of correspondence must be in writing. The precise address of the correspon- dence must be given. No request for redirection will be acted upon for more than three months, at the end of which time the correspondence resumes its usual course. Printed forms can be obtained from any Post. Office, and, when filled up and signed, should be sent to the delivery office concerned or handed to the postman.

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