✨ Postal Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
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From other countries} For three weeks from the
beyond New Zealand} date of receipt ;
must be exhibited at the office to which the letters are
addressed, and if the letters, after being so advertised, remain
undelivered from the date of receipt for the periods specified
in Rule 456 they are to be marked as directed in that rule, and
returned in the first dead-letter mail thereafter.
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The personal attention of Chief Postmasters is to be
given to the return of “ special-request letters ” as described in
the Guide. Unclaimed official unregistered letters, from what-
ever Department of the General Government of New Zealand,
may be returned direct by Chief Postmasters whether the letters
bear a special request or not. Unclaimed registered letters,
official or otherwise, and whether “ special-request ” or not,
are to be sent registered to the Dead Letter Office at the
respective proper dates, for return to the senders unopened when
the covers clearly indicate by whom they are sent. Otherwise
the “ special request ” rules are to operate, as shown in the
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Postmasters must cause frequent visits to be made to
hotels, shipping companies’ offices, and other agencies, for the
purpose of examining undelivered letters, telegrams, packets,
and newspapers, with the object of returning such as have
remained undelivered beyond the time prescribed by regulations
for remaining at post-offices, or for the purpose of being for-
warded to specific addresses known to the officers. Of course,
only such letters are to be recovered as may be agreed to be
returned or given up by the hotel-proprietors, &c., except those
that have lain the full time prescribed by the Act. Letters
which cannot be delivered must be treated as “ Unclaimed,”
and forwarded to the Dead Letter Office. A record is to be
kept of the date of each visit. See Rule 421, and section 22
of “ The Post Office Act, 1900,” here reprinted as follows :—
“ 22. (1.) Every postal packet addressed to any person at
any premises licensed under ‘ The Licensing Act, 1881,’ or at
any shipping office, or public or private lodginghouse, and
delivered to or received by the licensee of such premises, or the
person apparently in charge of such office or lodginghouse, or
any one acting as the agent or servant of any such licensee or
person, shall be deemed to be under the control of the Post-
master-General until delivered to the person to whom the same
is addressed.
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Dead Letter Office Procedures and Mail Handling
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPostal services, Dead letters, Unclaimed mail, Letter redirection, Chief Postmasters, Sub-Postmasters, Dead Letter Office, Wellington, hotels, shipping companies, lodging houses, Post Office Act 1900