✨ Post Office Operational Rules and Procedures
1592
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
45
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Postmasters must frequently examine their stores &c., and be careful not to accumulate an undue stock. Any Postmaster failing in this respect will be regarded as wanting in management. Sealing-wax broken in transit so that it cannot be used is to be returned to the chief post-office.
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Linen, leather, or wooden labels should be returned to the office of despatch, so long as they remain fit for further use.
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A Postmaster is required to see that all bags used at his office are kept in proper repair, and that the stencil-marks are always clear and legible. The name or initials of the office from which a bag was originally issued should be marked at the top of the bag near the rings in small letters sufficient for identification purposes only.
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Waste paper and office-sweepings, if placed in mail-bags, must be carefully examined before being disposed of, and the bags turned inside out.
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New Zealand bags must, consistently with keeping on hand a sufficient supply for immediate requirements, be returned to the despatching office, or to the chief office of the district to which they belong.
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Bags received from foreign offices must be returned, through the nearest despatching office, to the office of origin, and on no account used for inland or other miscellaneous mails. They should be so folded as to show clearly the brand or lettering of the office of origin.
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Bags branded “Post and Telegraph Stores,” or “P. & T. S.,” must be immediately returned to the Storekeeper, and are not to be used for mail purposes.
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Books which are to be retained permanently should, before being stored away, be prominently labelled with their titles and with the dates of commencement and completion.
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The undermentioned books and forms, when out of use, and after having been kept for the periods set against them, are, at the end of every year, to be returned by Chief Postmasters to the Storekeeper, securely packed in bags weighing not more than 56 lb. Care, however, must be taken that no stores, particularly from sub-offices, are improperly returned as waste.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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