✨ Postal Instructions
June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1651
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On the Front.
All articles when first posted, whether prepaid or franked. The impression must be legibly made on the postage-stamps unless the stamps are affixed in contravention of any of these rules.
All articles missent.
All articles surcharged.
Post-cards, whether posted or received.
Unclaimed letters, &c. (at sub-offices in black ink, at chief offices in red ink).
Redirected letters, &c. (at office where redirected).
Delivered letters returned to the post-office.
On the Back.
Letters received at any office from another office.
“Forward” letters.
Commercial and printed papers, patterns, and samples need not be date-stamped at office of destination or transit offices.
489. Letters despatched in mails to the larger offices are required to be levelled up at the end on which the postage-stamp is usually placed, and on the bottom, not the top, of the bundle. This secures that letters all touch the bed of the stamping-machine as required, and prevents their being bent over at the “stamp” end and retarded in their passage through the machine, where action is very rapid, and to be satisfactory must be continuous. Also letters must be distributed so that, as far as possible, very thick letters are kept in separate bundles. Special instructions are issued to offices using stamping-machines.
490. The officer in charge of the Finger-print Bureau of the Prisons Branch of the Department of Justice is permitted to use, until worn out, cloth-lined envelopes addressed to himself from local offices, conditionally on old date-stamp impressions being effectually deleted.
491. Every letter posted too late for any mail must be marked with the “Too late” stamp, or with the words “Too late” written in red ink on its face at the left-hand top corner, otherwise the impression of the date-stamp on it will be regarded as evidence that the letter was in time for the mail of that date.
492. Postmasters supplied with rubber stamps must make requisition for the proper ink and linen pads. The ordinary obliterating-ink destroys the rubber, and must not be used.
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Stamp Impression Quality Standards
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🚂 Postal Article Handling and Stamping Procedures
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPostal articles, Stamping procedures, Mail handling, Postal regulations
⚖️ Use of Cloth-Lined Envelopes by Finger-print Bureau
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementFinger-print Bureau, Cloth-lined envelopes, Postal regulations
🚂 Late Mail Marking Procedures
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsLate mail, Postal regulations, Stamping procedures
🚂 Rubber Stamp Ink and Pad Requirements
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Instructions for Rubber-Stamp Ink and Date-Stamping Postal Items
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsRubber stamp ink, Date stamping, Postal items, Ink pads, Stamping ink, Obliterating ink, Chief Postmasters, Postmasters, Finger-print Bureau, Prisons Branch, Department of Justice
- Officer in charge of the Finger-print Bureau of the Prisons Branch of the Department of Justice