✨ Parcel Post Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 47]
121
PARCEL POST
GENERAL.
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The general regulations governing the transmission of parcels will be found in the Guide. When these regulations or anything contained in this section are not inconsistent with the rules for the transmission of letters, parcels are to be treated in the same manner as letters.
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Every parcel must on presentation be weighed and measured, and care should be taken before finally accepting a parcel to consult the lists of limitation as to weights, measurements, and contents given in the Guide, and to see that the correct postage is affixed. Officers receiving parcels are responsible for any deficient postage. Special care must be exercised in weighing parcels for foreign offices. In no case must the slightest excess weight be passed over.
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A parcel containing any prohibited article, or bearing any writing or marks of an offensive or indecent character, must be refused. If detected in transit it must be detained and the circumstance reported, giving the address of the parcel and describing its contents.
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Any parcel tendered in a damaged or insecure condition, or in a condition likely to injure other parcels or any officer of the Post Office, should be refused, and a more secure method of packing suggested. If a parcel in such condition be observed in transit, it must be made secure and sent forward; if it cannot be so secured, it must be detained, and the sender or addressee advised on Form P.P. G.
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If the sender of an insecurely packed parcel should insist on its being forwarded, the foregoing rule may be relaxed, provided the acceptance of the parcel involves no risk or injury to any other parcel or to any officer. In all such cases the officer who accepts the parcel must write on the official label attached to the parcel the words “Insecurely packed; accepted at sender’s risk,” and add his initials, to enable him to identify it in case of complaint.
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Postage-stamps should be placed on the parcel-post label, and not upon the parcel itself. When a parcel not already bearing stamps is tendered, a label must be handed to the sender with a request to affix the stamps, which should be cancelled before the label is attached to the parcel. If a label is already affixed, a second label is to be affixed after a good impression of the stamp has been made on it. A perfectly legible impression of the date-stamp must also be made on a label before it is attached to a parcel. Every care must be taken that the covers or contents of parcels are not damaged in the process of date-stamping.
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The particulars of each parcel, on its receipt at the counter, must be entered immediately in the Record-book of Parcels Posted.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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Registered Letter Handling Procedures
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Parcel Post General Regulations
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