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offices, and at those offices a sub-office forward registered-letter record,
Book 6, is to be kept, in which all forward registered letters should
be entered. When a chief office receipt-form does not accompany
the forward registered article for delivery from a country office not
a money-order office, a form from the sub-office delivery-receipt book,
No. 4, is to be sent, and care should be taken to see that the receipt
is duly returned. If the office of destination is a money-order office,
no receipt-form need be sent. The Postmaster will take the receipt in
No. 7 Book, or, if for delivery by letter-carrier, make out his own re-
ceipt. When a chief office receipt-form does not accompany a regis-
tered article addressed to a permanent office, a receipt will be taken
in Book 7, or, if for delivery by letter-carrier, in Book 4. Local
letter-bills on which registered letters are advised to other offices
are to be returned to the despatching office, and retained as a receipt
for such letters, except in the case of a country office, which will send
them to the chief office.
564. Receipt-forms are not to be pinned to registered articles. They must be gummed in all cases.
565. On the arrival of a mail, the addresses of all registered letters
received by it must, after the letters have been stamped on the back, be
entered by the proper officer in the Forward or the Received Registered-
letter Book. In the latter case the receipt (without which no registered
letter must be tendered for delivery) must be given with the letter
to the clerk or letter-carrier who is to deliver it, and who must at the
same time sign the book in the proper place. Every registered letter
received at a sub-office for delivery must be at once entered in Book 7,
Sub-office Registered-letter Delivery-book. At sub-offices which are
not money-order offices the addressee, besides signing the receipt,
should be asked to sign in the Registered-letter Receipt-book 7.
566. A letter-carrier on delivering a registered letter must require
that the receipt be signed by the person to whom the letter is addressed:
when this is not practicable, it must be signed by some responsible
person known to be permanently connected with the house; or,
when the letter is directed to a place of business, by a clerk or other
person known to belong to the establishment. The receipt of a lodger
must not be taken except for his own letters.
567. When a registered letter is delivered from the post-office,
the receipt of the ordinary messenger of the person to whom it is
addressed will suffice, provided the messenger is known to be authorised,
or produces written authority from the addressee. Registered letters
which cannot be delivered at once, as, for instance, those to be kept
till called for, must be placed in the locker with the receipts attached
(see Rule 545), and the proper card with the address and number of
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