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the Chief Postmaster, and at the same time request the delivering Postmaster to arrange for its special delivery, and endeavour to obtain the cover and the name and address of the sender. Any letter posted bearing a postage-stamp which is believed to be forged is to be sent, with any report the Postmaster may have to make, to the Chief Postmaster, who, after making any further necessary inquiry, will send the papers to the Secretary, with his remarks. Postmasters should be careful not to obliterate any suspected stamps.
300. Defaced and undefaced postage-stamps, not the property of the Postmaster, found loose in a post-office must be attached to a sheet of paper and sent to the Dead Letter Office monthly, marked “Postage-stamps from ——.”
301. Discount-stamps are of one denomination only—namely, ¼d.—and are printed in sheets containing 240 stamps in each sheet. (See Rules 719–20.)
302. Discount-stamps will be redeemed at their face value as set out in Rule 722.
303. Discount-stamps are not permitted to pass through the post in prepayment of postage. No such stamps are to be cancelled if attached to letters by the public, and the letters themselves are to be treated as unpaid. If through any oversight a discount-stamp is obliterated, the stamp must be written across in red ink, “Date-stamped in error; not a postage-stamp,” and the ink allowed to soak well into the stamp. The letter itself should be treated as unpaid if sufficient postage, irrespective of the value of the discount stamps, has not been affixed.
304. Telegrams bearing discount-stamps are to be treated as if the stamps were absent.
LETTERS AND MAILS.
GENERAL.
305. For the rates of postage, and the general conditions governing the transmission by post of the several classes of mail-matter, reference should be made to the Guide.
306. Mails (letter and parcel) must be safeguarded in the process of transfer from hand to hand to see that no damage occurs to their contents. It is specially necessary to oversee transfer to and from mail-coaches and other vehicles, steamers, boats, &c., where careless persons may be tempted to throw bags, hampers, or baskets. Mails must be carried or passed, or, in case of necessity, only thrown when proper landing-nets
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