EVASION OF POSTAGE
Nothing sent through the post may contain an enclosure which is directed to a name and an address different from the name and address borne on the cover, and which is enclosed with the intention of evading postage. Any such forbidden enclosure if observed is liable to be taken out and forwarded to the addressee charged with separate postage at the rate properly prepayable.
POSTAL PACKETS ADDRESSED TO A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
As a general rule, every letter or other postal packet addressed to a Government Department, or an officer of the Government (except the Postmaster General on postal business) should be prepaid just as it were addressed to a private person.
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AFFIXING STAMPS
It is no part of the duties of the Post Office to affix stamps to cor- respondence, or to see that servants purchase or affix the proper amounts, nor can postal officials, in any circumstances, undertake to do so.
SECRECY OF THE POST
Postal officials have no discretionary powers to supply information respecting letters, or any kind of postal packet to persons other than those to whom they are addressed. They are not allowed to make public any official information of a private character.
CHANGE
Postal officials are not bound to give change when receiving a pay- ment, nor are they authorized to demand it when making a payment; and when money is paid at a post office, whether as change or other- wise, no question as to its right amount, goodness or weight can be entertained after it has been removed from the counter.
RECALL, DETENTION OR DIVERSION OF POSTAL PACKETS
No letter, parcel or other postal packet can, when it has been posted in a post office receptacle or handed to any office receptacle or handed to any officer of the Post Office in the course of his duty, be taken out of the post, even if application be made for it by a person who can prove that he is the sender. Nor can it be detained or delayed even if a request to that effect appears upon the cover. It must be forwarded to its address, and cannot be diverted to any other address at the request of the sender. Similarly, applications to enclose articles inadvertently omitted from a postal packet cannot be entertained; nor can search be made for a letter, postcard or printed paper packet on which postage has not been fully paid.
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