✨ Post Office Regulations
June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1681
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684. Every officer is required to make himself fully acquainted with the regulations published in the Guide relating to the insurance of parcels.
685. Acknowledgments of delivery may be obtained or given for insured parcels despatched to or received from the United Kingdom, under the same conditions as for registered letters. The fee in respect of such acknowledgments of delivery will be 2½d., and will be payable whether the request for acknowledgment is made at the time of posting or subsequently. These acknowledgments are to be dealt with in the same way as acknowledgments of delivery of registered letters, and all inquiries relating to insured parcels must in future be accompanied by an A.R. Form duly stamped.
A C C O U N T S.
GENERAL.
686. The transactions of Postmasters in respect of receipts and payments must be balanced daily and embodied in the Daily Cash Account (Form. Acct 133), which is practically a summary of all the other accounts kept. All entries, either of receipts or payments, must be made under the date on which the transactions actually take place.
687. The amount of the closing “balance in hand” each day forms the “balance brought forward” to be entered on the debit side of the next day’s account. Every deficiency or surplus discovered in the official cash must be reported by Postmasters to their Chief Postmasters, and by the latter to the Accountant. Cash short must at once be made good by the officer responsible, and surplus cash brought to charge in the Statement of Savings-Bank Deposits, and credited to Suspense Account.
688. The Department, in addition to the business proper to it, acts as agent for other Government Departments in the matter of collecting and paying moneys, such receipts and payments being brought to charge or taken credit for, as the case may be, in accordance with the directions hereafter given.
689. A summary of each class of receipt and payment, with the exception of remittances from and to sub-offices, must be furnished by Chief Postmasters with their periodical Post Office Account. The daily totals of the business done at chief offices must be shown thereon, but in the case of sub-offices only the totals for the period covered by the account need be stated. At all offices where there is a copying-press the statements referred to in these regulations must be press-copied; at others the necessary particulars must be entered in the
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Insurance of Parcels Regulations
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsParcel insurance, Inland parcels, International parcel exchange, Insurance certificates, Postage fees, Insurance fees, Acknowledgments of delivery
🚂 Post Office Daily Cash Account Regulations
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsDaily cash account, Post office transactions, Cash balance, Deficiency reporting, Surplus cash, Suspense account
🚂 Post Office Agency Services for Government Departments
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsGovernment agency services, Money collection, Money payment, Periodical post office account
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Insurance of Parcels Regulations
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsParcel insurance, Inland parcels, International parcel exchange, Insurance certificates, Postage fees, Insurance fees
💰 Post Office Accounting Regulations
💰 Finance & RevenuePost Office accounts, Daily Cash Account, receipts, payments, balancing transactions
💰 Post Office Agency Services
💰 Finance & RevenueGovernment Departments, collecting and paying moneys, agency services
💰 Post Office Accounting Procedures
💰 Finance & Revenuesummary of receipts and payments, periodical Post Office Account, daily totals, copying-press