✨ Postal Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
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To facilitate the transfer of mails and correspondence when the officers change trains, the following precautions must be observed: A way-bill is to be kept showing the mails in the van, also a list of the loose registered letters, which are to be made up in a packet; the list is to be signed by the receiving officer and returned to the chief office of despatch. All registered articles dealt with in the van are to be recorded in the “Forward” Registered-letter Book, No. 6.
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Officers are forbidden to deliver letters on the journey to private individuals.
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Before leaving the mail-van at the close of each day’s business the R.T.P.O. clerk must make a thorough examination to see that all letters, &c., are removed. The officer must report himself at the chief office with his mails, and remain until the mail is acknowledged.
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The railway post-office duty will be arranged in accordance with instructions which may be issued from time to time by the General Post Office, which will also fix the travelling-allowances to be paid. Clerks and sorters in the R.T.P.O., when their duty averages over ten hours a day for a continuous period of six days, will be granted one-half day’s leave of absence during the week following that on which such duty has been performed.
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All irregularities observed in the van must be at once reported to the Chief Postmaster, and when mails or registered letters are observed to be missing the fact must be telegraphed from the nearest station.
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Care must be observed in throwing off mails from trains in motion. A mail must be thrown or dropped clear of any obstacle, so as to prevent the possibility of a rebound by which it might fall under the wheels of the train. Bundles of newspapers and other hard substances, also articles of a fragile nature, must not be placed in mail-bags which have to be thrown off by mail agents from trains in motion.
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Applications for extra trucks for carrying mails by railway are not to be made unless such extra trucks are absolutely necessary. Chief Postmasters must see that otherwise they are not requisitioned for.
REGISTRATION.
- The undermentioned books are provided for recording registered articles, and it is important that the use of each book should be clearly understood:—
No. 1. Book of receipts given to the public for letters tendered for registration at chief offices.
No. 2. Book of receipts sent from or to be taken at chief offices for letters to be delivered.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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Railway Travelling Post-Office Rules
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsRailway mail services, Postal sorting, Mail van operations, Postal clerks, Smoking prohibition
🚂 Railway Travelling Post-Office Rules
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsRailway mail services, Postal sorting, Mail van operations, Registered letters, Mail handling, Reporting irregularities
🚂 Registration of Letters
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsRegistered letters, Postal receipts, Chief offices, Registration books