✨ Postal Regulations
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655. An abstract of the contents of each foreign parcel-mail received from London must be made on Form C. & F. P.P. 6, and sent to the Inspector.
656. Parcel-franking notice-forms received with parcels from the United Kingdom should, when completed, be sent to the Inspector, pinned to the duplicate of the parcel-bill in which the respective parcels are advised. The parcels themselves are to be sent to destination for delivery free of charge. The amount of Customs duty and other charges should be entered on the franking-notice form and also opposite the entry of the parcel on the copy of the parcel bill forwarded to the Inspector. The franking-notice forms will be forwarded by the Inspector to the office despatching the London parcel-mail entered in detail in a special parcel-bill, which the despatching office will incorporate in the last sheet of the ordinary parcel-mail, inserting the amount claimed in the column provided.
DEMURRAGE, DELIVERY, REDIRECTION, AND RETURN OF PARCELS.
657. The parcels remaining in the office to be called for must be examined daily with a view to ascertain what parcels have become liable to demurrage. (See Guide.) At the time of delivery of a parcel chargeable with demurrage the amount due is to be affixed in postage-due stamps,
658. The delivery of parcels will, as far as possible, be made by the letter-carriers in the same manner as other postal matter. It may be necessary to occasionally employ temporary assistance, but the Chief Postmaster must use his discretion in such cases. Every person employed to deliver parcels at a chief office must give an acknowledgment, by means of the delivery-docket, for those handed to him. The number of parcels handed over for delivery and the amount of charges to be collected must be entered on the docket, which must be filed for reference.
659. An undelivered parcel may be redirected from one place to another within the same delivery free of charge; but if redirected from one post-office to another it will be liable to a fresh rate of postage for each redirection. A receipt is to be taken in every instance when a parcel is delivered.
660. A redirected parcel, unless it be redirected to a place in the same free delivery, must be entered on the counter record in the same manner as a newly posted parcel, and the charge for redirection, even when not prepaid, must be entered in the same manner as the postage on a prepaid parcel and the word “ Redirected ” written in the column for remarks.
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