✨ Postal Regulations
No. 3. Book of receipts for letters tendered for registration at
sub-offices.
No. 4. Book of forms for obtaining receipts on delivery of registered
letters which do not pass through a chief office.
No. 5. Chief office “Forward” registered-letter record.
No. 6. Sub-office “Forward” registered-letter record.
No. 7. Sub-office registered-letter delivery-book.
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It is desirable that the treatment of registered letters should
be performed by officers of responsible positions, and the entries checked
with as little delay as possible, so that in all cases nothing may hinder
any irregularity from being promptly and thoroughly sifted, and
blame, if any, brought home to the offender or offenders. -
In transferring registered letters from hand to hand the
check consists in each officer obtaining a receipt or acquittance from
the person to whom he transfers a letter, and it is the duty of every
Postmaster to see that this essential check is not neglected. -
In every office there should be a registered-letter locker for
the secure deposit of registered letters which await despatch or delivery;
the key during office hours to be in possession of the officer appointed
to this duty, and after hours in the possession of the Postmaster or
the senior mail clerk. At the close of business each day registered
articles should be securely locked in a safe or strong-room by the
senior officer on duty. Careless detention of letters in the locker,
safe, or strong-room will be regarded as a serious offence, and punished
accordingly. -
Letters containing coin addressed to the Australian States,
the South Sea Islands, the United Kingdom, the United States of
America, and places marked “b” in the list of Postal Union countries
in the Post and Telegraph Guide may be sent as registered letters.
Such letters cannot be sent to other places, and if any should be
accepted in error or observed in transit they must be sent to the
Dead Letter Office. -
All “coin” letters (letters containing coin) sent to the Dead
Letter Office for disposal must be forwarded to the Inspector under
registered cover. -
To the person who presents a letter for registration a receipt
must be given out of the Registered-letter Receipt-book. The letter
must be date-stamped, and the word “Registered” stamped or written
in red ink at the left-hand top corner on the front side. In the case
of a letter posted at a sub-office not possessing an “R” stamp, the
nearest chief or distributing office through which it circulates will be
responsible for its due stamping. The letter must, in the presence
of the person registering it, be marked in blue pencil with a rectangular
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