✨ Postal Regulations and Mail Handling
JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1627
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(1.) Registered articles, including acknowledgments of delivery and the registered list, must be made up in a separate packet or registered-letter bag, which must be sealed and placed in the centre of the mail.
(2.) Letters are to be securely tied in bundles: prepaid, unpaid and insufficiently-paid, and “forward” letters are to constitute separate bundles. Convenient numbers of bundles of each class of letters should be formed into parcels, wrapped up in brown paper, strongly tied and cross-tied with string for their better protection, and labelled with a printed paper label indicating their class.
(3.) Post-cards must be tied separately, and not sorted among letters, but the bundles should be enclosed in letter-packets.
(4.) Insufficiently-paid book, pattern, and sample packets, and newspapers, should be tied into bundles and labelled “Unpaid.”
(5.) Correspondence on Post Office business should be tied in a separate bundle and labelled “Official, form no account.”
(6.) Letters and post-cards, book and pattern packets, and newspapers, are to be carefully and separately weighed, and the weights entered in the Foreign Mail Register. Post-cards should be weighed with letters.
(7.) The letter-bill is to be enclosed in the special envelope marked “Letter-bill,” and placed on top, inside the bag containing the registered-letter bag, letters, &c., and when the registered letters contained in a mail are enclosed in a packet the envelope should be tied to the packet with string, across and across.
375. When a letter-bill for a foreign office is accidentally left behind it should be sent to the Inspector, pinned to a V.C., P.O. 16, with an explanation of the irregularity.
376. If it is found, after the despatch of a mail, that the weights or any of the other items have been incorrectly entered in the letter-bill, the despatching office must at once report the error to the Inspector by V.C.
377. All bags containing mail-matter for foreign offices must be sealed with capsules, and labelled by means of a linen or other approved label. Bags with stencilled addresses may also be used. Bags stencilled “Newspapers” must not be used for letters,
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