✨ Post Office Operational Rules
1596
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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itself, 6d.; and for the Supplement by itself, 2d.; subscription per annum for Guide and Supplement, 2s.
253. A copy of the Supplement must be distributed to every person in the employ of the Department who receives the Guide, and to every subscriber to the Guide, in order that the whole information may be complete.
RETURNS AND STATISTICS.
254. Chief Postmasters and Postmasters are required to keep the data necessary to enable them to furnish all returns and statistics which may be called for from time to time, and to see that all such information is supplied at the proper time. (See Appendix B.)
255. Chief Postmasters and other officers requiring to use the information will note that, in estimating the number of letters from a total weight, the factor of forty-six to the pound is to be used.
MAIL-SERVICES.
256. Mail-services are classified in Parts as follows:—
Part I. Land services performed under periodical triennial contract.
Part II. Land services performed, by contract or not, under special arrangement not necessarily terminating with a contract period.
Part III. Services performed by railway.
Part IV. Sea services for which amounts are specifically provided in the annual appropriations.
At the periodical reletting of contracts it will be necessary to scan the services in Part II., with a view to the removal to Part I. of any which will from that time be usually let to tender.
The entries in each Part are numbered consecutively, and should be referred to by name, Part, and number. Each Part is to be separate and distinct, and numbered by itself.
257. Any service the cost of which is defrayed out of the vote for carriage of mails must appear as a mail-service, as, for instance, the delivery of letters by subsidised carrier, or a service between a post-office and railway-station.
258. The revenue from a mail-service is estimated at ½d. each for letters, post-cards, and books, and ¼d. each for newspapers, posted and delivered. Care should be taken in the
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Post Office Operational Rules and Procedures
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPost and Telegraph Guide, Official publications, Department procedures, Guide distribution, Supplement distribution, Returns and statistics, Mail-services classification
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Post Office Operational Rules and Procedures
(continued from previous page)
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPost and Telegraph Guide, Official publications, Department procedures, Guide distribution, Supplement distribution
🚂 Returns and Statistics Requirements
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsReturns, Statistics, Postmasters, Data collection
🚂 Mail Services Classification
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsMail services, Classification, Contracts, Railway services, Sea services
🚂 Mail Service Cost and Revenue Estimation
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsMail service cost, Revenue estimation, Letter delivery, Subsidised carrier