✨ Telegraph Regulations and Procedures
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written on the envelopes. Envelopes containing telegrams must be date-stamped near the left-hand bottom corner; the code-call of the office of origin, the handed-in time, and the time sent out, being clearly shown in the spaces provided.
87. Particulars of each telegram or batch of telegrams sent out from a central office for delivery or for the post must be entered on Form Acct. 209, and from other offices on Form Acct. 69.
88. Telegrams for banking and other commercial establishments must be delivered to a principal officer, or as the Department may be advised by the principal official connected with the institution.
89. Telegrams for delivery on board steamers should, if the addressee is not known to the messenger or is not on board, only be delivered to the chief steward.
90. Should there be no person at the place to which a telegram is addressed, the messenger must fill up and leave in the letter-box, or under the door, a despatch notice. If any charge is due, the amount must be marked on the notice. When the messenger returns to the office, the despatch clerk must carefully inquire into the reason given for non-delivery, and suitably indorse the envelope. Wherever possible the messenger’s statement must be checked by means of the telephone.
Telegrams for which notices have been left must be sent out again for delivery at frequent intervals, and messengers instructed to make inquiries at neighbouring houses as to the addressee’s whereabouts. A second despatch notice must not be left.
91. When messengers are unable to deliver telegrams at places of business, and the addressees live within the free delivery, the telegrams should, failing other instructions, be delivered at the private residence or known place of abode. Care must be taken to prevent such telegrams being opened by persons for whom they are not intended.
92. Telegrams addressed to a post-office, a telegraph-office, or telegrams which cannot be delivered, must, when the post and telegraph counters are separate, be kept at the telegraph counter, and a card (Form Acct. 300) placed at the post-office counter. Should the addressee call at the post-office the card must be handed to him with a request to call and claim the telegram at the telegraph counter; but should delivery be made at the telegraph counter without production of the card, the card must be recalled from the
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsTelegraph delivery, envelope date-stamping, Form Acct. 209, Form Acct. 69, message delivery, commercial telegrams, steamer telegrams, despatch notice, non-delivery procedure, messenger instructions