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468. An advance of postage-due stamps of various denominations will be made to every Postmaster, who will be required to sign a receipt for the same, and who will be held accountable at any time for the full amount thereof. A sufficient quantity of postage-due stamps must be kept on hand by every Postmaster to meet requirements.
469. Postmasters will make requisition, when necessary, to the Chief Postmaster for further supplies of postage-due stamps, in the same manner as they do for ordinary postage and revenue stamps.
470. No mail-matter is to be delivered until the postage due thereon has been paid.
471. Postmasters, before delivering surcharged correspondence, must affix or cause to be affixed and cancelled, as ordinary stamps are cancelled, one or more postage-due stamps equivalent in value to the amount of postage due.
472. Any Postmaster, or other person engaged in the Postal Service, who shall collect and fail to account for the postage due upon any article of mail-matter which he may deliver without having previously affixed and cancelled the special postage-due stamp, is guilty of a breach of duty, and is liable to a penalty not exceeding £50.
473. At post-offices where delivery of letters, &c., is not effected by letter-carriers, postage-due stamps are not to be affixed until delivery has been requested; and they are not to be affixed to matter forwarded by request of addressees, returned to writer, or sent to the Dead Letter Office.
474. At post-offices where there is a delivery by letter-carrier, postage-due stamps are to be affixed to all taxed correspondence as soon as received, unless an order has been received for redirection, in which case the correspondence should be forwarded without affixing the stamps.
475. Postage-due articles for private-bag holders must have postage-due stamps affixed and cancelled before being placed in the private bags. To enable the value of the postage-due stamps to be recovered, the form “Redirected Postage due” (Acct. 154) should be altered to suit, and enclosed with the letters.
476. If matter should arrive at a post-office with postage due thereon, and the Postmaster has no postage-due stamps on hand, he will collect the amount due, and, as soon as he can obtain postage-due stamps, will affix he amount in such stamps
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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🚂 Regulations for Postage-Due Stamps and Mail Handling
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