✨ Postal Service Regulations
JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1657
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The prepayment of postage and registration fee applies only in the case of notices sent by private individuals, which will, however, be comparatively few in number. Electoral notices sent by Registrars of Electors will be franked or officially stamped as the rules for the time being may require.
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Any Postmaster having an undelivered electoral notice which it is believed cannot be delivered must exhibit outside his office, within three days of its receipt, in a conspicuous place, the full address of such notice, and advise his Chief Postmaster by first mail. Electoral notices may be delivered to the addressee only. Written orders cannot be accepted unless the addressee is known to the Postmaster or his officers to be in the district.
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On receipt of advice of undelivered notices the Chief Postmaster will take immediate steps to see that the full addresses of such notices are exhibited at all offices within the respective electoral districts.
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Registered electoral - notice letters or summonses specially indorsed to be returned to the Registrar within a given time must be returned to such officer direct after being detained the time stated on the envelope. Every letter or summons so dealt with must have superscribed on the front, in red ink, the reason for non-delivery. Chief Postmasters must see that all unclaimed electoral notices are promptly returned.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING POST-OFFICE.
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The railway travelling post-office clerks and sorters must observe all the rules laid down for the guidance of officers performing ordinary postal duties.
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Mails received along the line must be immediately sorted, the posting-boxes in the mail-van cleared when the train leaves each stopping-place, and correspondence for all offices on the line appointed to receive such mails delivered in sealed bags. The sub-office letter-bill, P.O. 2, must be used.
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All letters sorted in the mail-van must be date-stamped. The index letter or figure of the date-stamp must be changed at the point where the officer commences his return journey, and an impression made in the book each time.
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R.T.P.O. clerks must on no account allow any one to travel in the mail-van unless he is a Postal Inspector or postal officer on duty in the van. Newsvendors are not excepted from this exclusion. Any disregard of this instruction will result in the officer at fault being severely dealt with.
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Smoking in the mail-van is forbidden.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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Electoral Notice Letters Handling
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsElectoral Act, Postmaster duties, Election services, Postal officers, Undelivered notices, Registered letters
🚂 Railway Travelling Post-Office Rules
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsRailway mail services, Postal sorting, Mail van operations, Postal clerks, Smoking prohibition