✨ Postal Regulations and Mail Despatch Procedures
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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and by him, if necessary, to the Inspector. The wax as it is placed on capsules or on the labels of bags must be of a much lower temperature than boiling-point. Every mail-bag leaving a post-office must bear a clear impression of the office seal.
344. All local and other mails which are despatched at regular and fixed intervals must be checked in and out by a standard list. The hour at which seaborne mails are despatched should be entered in the Mail Register. The time-table of the ordinary departure of local mails is to be posted up outside the office for public information.
345. When an extra bag or packet is made up for any office and despatched with the regular mail the words “Supplementary Mail” must be written in red ink on the letter-bill. The bag or packet must be entered on the way-bill in the proper column.
346. Any irregularity in the despatch or arrival of a mail must be immediately reported, through the usual channel, to the Inspector. The Post Office Act deals with the conveyance of mails by sea, and Postmasters must see that its requirements are complied with.
347. When a Postmaster becomes aware that any irregularity has occurred with respect to a mail in transit, which will cause its non-arrival at its destination in proper course, he should at once telegraph to the Postmaster of the place to which it is addressed, and also to the despatching Postmaster, informing them of the circumstances. He must also report the case to the Chief Postmaster, stating the cause of the irregularity, and how the mail will be disposed of.
348. Postmasters must, unless specially instructed on the subject, use their own discretion as to forwarding by special means, or by the next available opportunity, mails which have been delayed, so as to prevent, as far as possible, public inconvenience from detention of the letters.
349. All seaborne mails must be made up in canvas bags. On no account may paper wrappers be used.
DESPATCH OF FOREIGN MAILS.
350. Correspondence posted in the colony and addressed to the United Kingdom will be forwarded by the routes selected from time to time, unless it be specially directed via Australia, Italy, or France, in which case it is to be sent “forward” on Bluff, Wellington, or Auckland, whichever will give the quickest despatch. (It is to be understood that the name “Australia”
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