✨ Postal Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
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581. When a registered article sent to a sub-office is redirected to another office in the same postal district it must be entered in the Forward Registered-letter Book of the money-order office through which it circulates, and sent on with the receipt attached. If redirected to another postal district, the original receipt must be returned to the office from which received, marked “Redirected to —— ” (naming the place), and the redirection recorded.
582. A registered letter which, after delivery to the representative of the addressee, may be redirected unopened, and reposted in the posting-box of any office, must be treated as irregularly posted, and charged double registration fee, but not second postage.
583. The receipts for delivered or redirected registered articles are to be gummed in the places in the receipt-book from which they were taken, and the book must be carefully examined each day to see that all receipts have been returned, by which means a complete check will be kept on all registered letters received for delivery. All registered letters for sub-offices which pass through the chief office must be entered in the Chief Office Receipt-book, No. 2, and the form of receipt for signature by the addressee must accompany the letter and be returned by the Sub-Postmaster immediately after the letter has been delivered.
584. To avoid as far as possible the necessity of resorting to more severe measures, a fixed punishment by money fines is imposed for irregularities in regard to registered letters; and it is strictly enjoined that every such irregularity be reported to the Inspector.
585. When such a serious irregularity occurs as the missending or delaying a registered-letter bag or packet, or losing trace of a registered letter, the fine or punishment will be specially decided upon according to the gravity of the offence.
586. If a registered letter or postal remittance letter is missent, or entered on the letter-bill and not received, this error must, when possible, be reported to the despatching office by telegraph, and it must also be reported in the usual form by the first post.
587. In the case of the loss of a registered letter through neglect of the rules, the officer or officers at fault will be held liable for the contents of the lost letter, or a more serious punishment may be inflicted.
588. A sum not exceeding £2 may be paid as compensation for the loss of any registered letter on production of such evidence as will satisfy the Minister of its loss.
589. When an unusually bulky registered packet cannot be enclosed in the bag with the other registered articles, the phrase “En dehors” must be written opposite its entry on the registered list, under
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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Registered Letter Handling Procedures
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsRegistered letters, Postal procedures, Redirection, Receipts, Fines, Irregularities, Compensation
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Registered Letter Handling Procedures and Penalties
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