✨ Postal regulations for parcel post
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on separate lists ; one copy of each parcel-bill is to be enclosed in the mail, another forwarded to the Superintendent, B. & F. P.P., General Post Office, Cape Town, and the third copy to the Inspector.
632. Chief Postmasters at despatching offices will return parcel-receptacles by first mail to country of origin. In the case of London, however, ten boxes may be retained. Returned “empties” should be, as far as possible, packed within each other. The weight of empty receptacles should be included in the advice of gross weight and tare in parcel-bills to London. In returning empty boxes to London, not more than an average number is to be sent by any one steamer. Empty boxes need not be sealed.
633. All parcel-mails for London must be accompanied by a receptacle-list, C. & F. P.P. 4, and a way-bill, C. & F. P.P. 11, copies of which must be sent to the Inspector.
634. A ticket, C. & F. P.P. 21, must be enclosed in every receptacle despatched, and must be so placed as to be immediately found on opening the same. As these tickets are for the purpose of facilitating the checking of mails on arrival, no receptacle should be despatched without one.
635. For parcel-mails to countries beyond the colony other than the United Kingdom, despatching offices should each set apart a certain number of hampers to be exclusively used for such mails, stencil them with their initial letter, and number them in a single series. Thus, hampers should be stencilled—
By Auckland .. N.Z., A 1, A 2, &c.
By Invercargill .. N.Z., B 1, B 2, &c. (B representing Bluff).
By Wellington .. N.Z., W 1, W 2, &c.
The stencilling should appear prominently on the outside of hampers. The above offices should keep records to show what class of hampers each number represents, so that its description may be furnished in case of loss.
636. All hampers used for parcel-mails to countries beyond the colony (as well as “empties” returned to countries of origin) must be advised of at the left-hand bottom corner of parcel-bills by their stencil marks and numbers, and when returned to New Zealand will be similarly entered. Any omission to so advise must be reported by V.C.
637. Surplus hampers and parcel-boxes from places outside New Zealand are to be returned to offices of origin by first parcel-mail after receipt, as many as necessary being used for enclosing parcels. Hampers and boxes must not be returned in any other way than through one of the offices making up direct parcel-mails for the country of origin.
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