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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No 47.
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letters on hand, and registered cards with registered letters in the locker.
411. When the San Francisco mail arrives too late to enable a delivery to be made before 5 p.m. chief offices should reopen from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. If the mail arrives too late to enable the delivery to be completed by 8 p.m. no special reopening is to be made under ordinary circumstances. If, however, the San Francisco mail arrives the day before the outgoing mail is to be despatched, or on a Saturday, or on the day before a holiday, delivery is to be made as late as 10 p.m. The reopening should be understood to cover a delivery of letter-carriers’ correspondence as well as of that addressed to the post-office.
412. All letters must be delivered as addressed, except in the case of addressees who have changed their residences.
413. The addressee alone has a right to letters, &c., or the right to say how they shall be disposed of, and all his orders for delivery to any person other than himself must be in writing.
414. Should a letter intended for one person be delivered to another, and should it be opened by the wrong person, the name of this latter person and his address must be written on it, and the reason why it is returned, thus: “Opened by [name and address of person]—Not for him”; and the letter must be resealed, care being taken that the seal is not placed upon the original fastening.
415. At an office where there is delivery by letter-carrier it is the duty of the Postmaster to see that the letter-carriers understand their instructions and obey them.
416. A letter-carrier is required to arrange the letters for his delivery before he leaves the office, to make his delivery as quickly as possible, and, having done so, to come back to the office, returning any letters which he may have been unable to deliver, and paying the postage charged against him. He is not required to give credit for postage, but, if he does, it must be at his own risk.
417. A letter-carrier must observe the following instructions:—
(1.) He may not, after starting from the office on his delivery, go to his own house or to any other house, except for the purpose of leaving letters, until his delivery is finished.
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