✨ Postal Regulations and Procedures
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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master is responsible that articles of this description which pass through his office are correctly surcharged; and every officer under his control should be vigilant to notice any deficiency of postage on letters.
462. Unpaid and insufficiently prepaid correspondence from abroad (except that from Australia, which is fully surcharged) is charged on delivery double the deficiency marked by the despatching office. Unpaid or insufficiently prepaid registered letters are to be delivered to addressees without charge. For conversion of francs and centimes into shillings and pence see Rule 370. When, after doubling the deficiency, the conversion into pence leaves a remainder below five centimes, it is not taken into account; for any remainder beyond five centimes, 1d. is to be charged. Newspapers, if bearing inscription “abonnements-poste,” are to be treated as fully prepaid.
463. Supplementary postage due for redirection is collectible on delivery. For instance, if a two-rate registered letter originally posted in New Zealand for town delivery, and prepaid 2d. postage and 3d. registration-fee, were subsequently redirected to a country where the rate is 2½d. per ½ oz. it would be charged the simple deficiency. (See Rule 546.)
464. Officers must not strain the regulations in the matter of weighing letters. The plate holding the letter must depress its pillar until it touches the platform before the letter can be said to be chargeable.
465. All surcharges must be boldly marked on the face of the unpaid articles in black ink.
466. Postage-due stamps are to be used for the collection of unpaid or insufficiently paid postage on all classes of correspondence.
467. Postage-due stamps are in no case to be received by any Postmaster in payment of postage. Should postage-stamps not recognised for prepayment be used, no account is to be taken of them. This circumstance is indicated by the figure “0” placed by the side of the postage-stamps. Niue, Aitutaki, and Penrhyn Island stamps, or those of the Cook Islands, affixed to correspondence posted in New Zealand are not to be accepted in payment for postage on New Zealand mail-matter, and in cases where they are so affixed they are on no account to be cancelled, whether the article be fully prepaid in New Zealand stamps or not. Letters not sufficiently prepaid in New Zealand postage-stamps are to be treated as such in the usual way. (See Rules 366–370, 399.)
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