DELIVERY.

1. To facilitate the delivery of letters a letter-box should be affixed to every house-door.
2. Deliveries from office counters, &c., are made from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week-days, but certain post-offices specially authorised by the Postmaster-General may be closed during the periods of sorting and despatching mails.
3. Letter-carriers and messengers are prohibited from distributing any letters, news-papers, &c., except such as have passed through a post-office. They are not allowed to deliver in the street or elsewhere except at houses or places of business, even to addressees; nor are they allowed to deliver under doors. They are not permitted to receive any payment beyond the postage for the delivery or collection of any letter or newspaper, or to deviate from the route laid down for them. The prohibition, however, from receiving payment in addition to the postage does not extend to Christmas gratuities. For delivery of parcels by parcel-post, see regulations under “Parcel Post.”
4. No person living within the town free delivery can claim to have his letters delivered at the office if a delivery by letter-carrier is about to take place; but letters which arrive by a mail, after which there is no immediate delivery by letter-carrier, may be obtained by any person on application at the office, so long as it is open for delivery.
5. Receipts must be given for all registered articles upon delivery thereof.
6. Letters addressed to the post-office, or to be kept till called for, may be obtained at the office, except where it is ascertained that it is the practice of persons living within the town delivery to have their letters so addressed, in which cases they will be sent out by letter-carrier. Letters for persons residing beyond any official delivery will be delivered on application at the office. It is not permitted to return any letter to the writer or sender, or to any one else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to such effect be written thereon (except under the provisions for special request, see “Special-request Letters”), as every letter must be delivered to the person to whom it is originally directed, and to him alone. Information must not be given by a postal officer respecting letters, &c., which pass through a post-office, except to the persons to whom they are addressed.

EXPRESS DELIVERY AND SPECIAL MESSENGER SERVICES.

1. There are express delivery and special messenger services at the following offices:

Ashburton,
Auckland,
Blenheim,
Bluff,
Christchurch,
Dunedin,
Feilding,
Gisborne,
Gore,
Greymouth,
Hawera,
Hokitika,
Invercargill,
Lyttelton,
Masterton,
Napier,
Nelson,
New Plymouth,
Oamaru,
Onehunga,
Palmerston North,
Port Chalmers,
Thames,
Timaru,
Wanganui,
Wellington,
Westport.

2. All letters and parcels not exceeding 3 lb. in weight, posted at any post-office, intended for express delivery, must be boldly and legibly marked on the left-hand side “Express Delivery,” and two parallel lines drawn across the front and back of the letter or parcel, thus:

and the delivery-fee affixed in stamps, in addition to the ordinary postage. “Expressed” articles will be received up to time for receiving late letters.
3. All articles not so marked, or not fully prepaid the postage and delivery-fee, will be treated as a rule as ordinary correspondence, and delivered in the usual way. In certain cases, however, where the delivery-fee has been paid and the distance apparently miscalculated, or the postage inadvertently omitted, the articles will be delivered and the deficiency collected from the addressee and affixed to the letter in postage-due stamps.
4. The delivery-fee for each article is 6d. for the first mile, and 3d. each additional mile up to two miles, or three miles in all.
5. Delivery will be by telegraph message boy. The sender may, however, direct that delivery be made at the post-office, in which case the words “To be called for” must be written underneath the words “Express delivery.”
6. A receipt must be given by the recipient for each specially-delivered article.
7. “Expressed” letters, properly stamped for delivery from the post-office, also telegrams fully stamped for transmission, may be handed to any telegraph messenger or letter-carrier for delivery at the office. In no case, however, will the letter-carrier or messenger wait while the letter or telegram is being written.
8. A special messenger will be placed at the disposal of any telephone exchange subscriber on request being made to the exchange. Such messenger may be utilised for running an errand, ordering a cab, delivering a small parcel or letter, or any similar service. The fee to be paid will be the same as for express delivery; but beyond three miles and up to five miles, cab-hire, or return tram fare, must be paid, in addition to the mileage fee. The whole of the messenger’s journey will be counted as from the post-office. For example, if the telephone exchange subscriber lives half a mile from the office and the messenger has to deliver an article a mile beyond the subscriber’s residence, the charge will be as for two miles. In the event of a boy being required to deliver a number of parcels or letters to different addresses, or to return with a reply, the charge will be at the rate of 1s. for the first hour and 6d. for each succeeding half-hour or portion thereof.
9. The delivery of “expressed” letters and parcels will be made from the time the offices named are opened until the last regular received mail of the day is sorted. The special messenger service will be available during the hours the telegraph-office is open for public business.