New Zealand Gazette – 1906 – No. 47

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✨ Postal Regulations

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At a delivery office the special form of receipt, P.P. A2, must at once be prepared and placed with the parcel. The addressee must sign the receipt, which should be date-stamped and forwarded to the sender.

610. The fee for certificate of posting is, in the case of foreign parcels, to be affixed in stamps to the butt of the Certificate of Posting, and the stamp cancelled with an impression of the office date-stamp. When a book of certificates is used up it is to be sent to the Accountant. In the column for remarks in the Record-book of Parcels Posted the words “Certificate granted” should be entered opposite each parcel in respect of which a certificate has been given.

611. Rates of postage for places beyond the colony, except the United Kingdom, Ceylon, India, and Samoa, are divided into “first” and “subsequent” rates. As the number of each kind of rate has to be stated on the parcel-bill, officers accepting parcels will, on receipt of a parcel, write in the left-hand lower corner of the parcel the number of rates—thus, 1/3: that is, one first rate and three subsequent rates.

612 Parcels for despatch to foreign offices must be entered on the respective parcel-bills in order of receipt and placed among the other parcels awaiting despatch: those for—

London on C. & F. P.P. 12c.
Colombo 
India   } on C. & F. P.P. 12d.
Apia    
San Francisco        ,,      12B.
Other places         ,,      12 and 12A.

613. The transfer docket P.P.C. is for use when it is necessary to maintain a check upon the transfer of parcels from the counter or branch office to the sorting-office.

614. Except as provided in Rules 76 and 458, the rule forbidding that a letter should be handed back to the sender applies equally to a parcel.

615. Official packets posted on Government service are not to be sent as parcels.

616. When a Postmaster is satisfied that the despatch or delivery of letters would be delayed by the inclusion of parcels, he may detain such parcels until the following despatch or delivery.

617. A larger number of hampers, baskets, wrappers, &c., than necessary should not be kept at any office, and those received which are not immediately required should be returned to the chief office as soon as possible. Baskets, &c., when returned should be enclosed, as far as practicable, one within the other. The word “Empties” should be written in the space for the weight. “Empties” are not to be sealed, although they must be entered on the way-bills as if they were

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