✨ Dead Letter Office Procedures and Mail Handling
JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1643
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“ (2.) If the same is not so delivered within two months after the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such licensee or other person as aforesaid, and if instructions to the contrary are not received from the person to whom the same is addressed, the licensee or other person as aforesaid shall return the same to the nearest post-office, with the reasons therefor.
“ (3.) Every such postal packet shall be transmitted to the Dead Letter Office, and shall be there dealt with as undelivered.
“ (4.) If any such licensee or other person as aforesaid omits or fails to return any such postal packet as aforesaid, he is liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
“ (5.) The foregoing provision of this section shall extend and apply to telegrams transmitted by electric telegraph.”
453. Articles received without address, or in damaged covers, must be reported to the Inspector by Chief Postmasters on Form P.O. 69, by first mail, and at the same time advertised in a conspicuous place. If unclaimed at the end of one month, they must be sent to the Dead Letter Office. If the sender of any such article can be identified, he is first to be communicated with. Newspapers, unless illustrated, are to be kept at chief offices for reference and delivery, but if not applied for within three months they are to be destroyed. Unclaimed illustrated papers and magazines must be sent to the Dead Letter Office at the expiration of three clear months. This rule is to be read as applying to unclaimed newspapers, both addressed and unaddressed. (Read Rule 328.)
454. Articles received at sub-offices without address are to be advertised by notice prominently exhibited, and sent by first mail to the Chief Postmaster for disposal.
455. In the case of address-covers or envelopes received without contents, the addressee should be communicated with on Form P.O. 109, with a view to the identification of the probable contents.
456. The following table denotes when undelivered letters, letter-cards, and packets are to be sent to the Dead Letter Office, the times at which they are to be so sent, and the reasons to be assigned upon them.
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