✨ Postal Regulations and Mail Handling
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 47
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378. When a mail consists of more than one bag, special care must be taken to indicate the class of correspondence contained in each bag, either by using bags stencilled “Letters,” “Newspapers,” &c., or by marking the labels. No bag of correspondence should weigh more than 80 lb.
379. Red labels are to be tied to the necks of bags containing letters for Australia. Offices requiring such labels should apply to the Storekeeper.
380. Stencilled bags belonging to the London Post Office when used for mails from New Zealand to the United Kingdom must not be reversed. To distinguish the mails from inward mails the special labels supplied to such offices as require them must be used. For mails via Suez the labels are printed with a yellow border, for San Francisco with a black border, and for Vancouver with a red border. The black-bordered label is for the use of the Mail Agent only.
381. Loose correspondence received from non-Union countries, such as Tonga, or certain other South Pacific islands, for despatch to Union countries, should be stamped with the stamps applicable to correspondence posted in the colony, such as “T,” “R,” &c.
382. The weight of both letters and post-cards, and of other articles, is to be stated on the labels of all mails for Western Australia. Terminal offices of steamers leaving for Australia must also enter these weights in the letter-bill for the first port of call in Australia.
383. Particulars of “forward” mails are not to be written on the ordinary canvas labels, but on the special parchment labels provided for advising the contents of such mails. These parchment labels should be tied under the canvas neck-label.
384. The weights of letters and post-cards, and of other articles, contained in bags posted by the Governor are shown on labels, and should be embodied in the general weights.
385. Mails for Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania, which are conveyed by steamers direct to destination, need not bear any indorsement on labels.
ARRIVAL OF INLAND MAILS.
386. Postmasters are required to personally superintend the sorting of mails, and to see that prompt delivery of their contents is made.
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