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bags or packets. They are to be counted and checked by a second
officer, who is required to initial the letter-bill or list, as the case may
be, and to witness the sealing of the bag.
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If it should be necessary to delete or alter the entry of
any registered letter on the letter-bill or list, the alteration must be
attested by the initials of the officer who makes it; but, when
practicable, it is better to substitute a fresh bill or list with the
entries correctly made. -
On receipt of a registered-letter bag or packet, it must be
carefully examined to ascertain that it has not been tampered with,
and that it bears an impression of the seal of the office from which
it was despatched. It must be opened apart from all other bags and
packets, and at a table where there is no possibility of a letter being
secreted. It must then be turned inside out and the letters checked
with the registered-letter list and letter-bill. Should the list or letter-
bill be missing, careful search must be made, and the folds of every
letter or packet examined. The empty registered-letter bag or packet
must not be put aside until the examination of the list and letters
has been completed. -
The officer who despatches or who opens a bag containing
registered letters should so completely satisfy himself as to the agree-
ment between the entries on the list and on the bill and the registered
letters to which they refer as to be able, if required, to make affidavit
on the subject. In case of any discrepancy, a second officer should
at once be called to certify to the articles received. -
Letters containing money or stamps passing between Post-
masters are not to be registered. They are to be marked “Remit-
tance,” and advised as such on the letter-bill. -
Packets containing money-order and savings-bank accounts
addressed to Chief Postmasters, or telegraph or telephone accounts
addressed to the Accountant, Clearing-room, Wellington, are not to
be registered, but must be entered in the letter-bill to the chief post-
office in the space headed “Instructions.” -
Letters containing telegraph money-orders must be re-
gistered. -
Letters registered at any office when addressed to any
place to which that office makes up mails must be forwarded direct
to the delivering office. If the delivering office is not a money-order
office, a receipt from the registered-letter delivery-receipt book
should be attached to the letter, and, when signed by the addressee,
returned to the office of origin, and refastened to the butt from which
it was taken. -
As a rule money-order offices only are used as circulating
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