New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 52

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✨ Postal Regulations and Dead Letter Office Procedures



  1.                                                             THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.                                                              [No. 52.

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Redirection Orders not Free of Postage.

  1. Applications for the redirection of letters, &c., must be made directly to the Postmasters of the offices to which the letters are addressed, and whence they will be redirected. Postmasters are not permitted to receive orders for redirection to be sent forward to other Postmasters. Orders for redirection are not free of postage.

  2. Letters addressed to initials or to fictitious names (noms de plume, &c.) cannot be readdressed. They can only be delivered from the office to which they are originally addressed.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

  1. On the first day of each month a list is exhibited at each post-office in New Zealand of the addresses of all letters received from places beyond New Zealand that have remained unclaimed at such post-office for periods varying according to the countries of origin or according to the address of the letters as in the following table, and such of these letters as remain unclaimed at the end of the specified further period are then forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, to be returned unopened to the countries where they originated.

LETTERS.

Remaining Unclaimed for a Period from Date of Receipt of Are then advertised; and returned to the Dead Letter Office after having been retained from Date of Receipt for
Addressed to the Post-office, or “To be called for,” or to a person residing beyond the letter-carriers’ deliveries:—
From New Zealand .. .. 1 month .. 6 weeks.
From Australia .. .. 3 weeks .. 2 months.
From other countries beyond New Zealand 1 month ..
Addressed to a specified house for a person who, nevertheless cannot be found; or addressed to a person who has gone away without leaving an address:—
From New Zealand .. .. 1 week .. 1 month.
From Australia .. .. 2 weeks .. 6 weeks.
From other places beyond New Zealand 3 weeks ..

Unclaimed letters originating in New Zealand are not advertised, but at the end of the specified periods are forwarded (excepting special-request letters) to the Dead Letter Office, Wellington, there to be opened and returned to the writers.

  1. Letters addressed to ships at seaports are kept three months.

  2. Under section 22 of “The Post Office Act, 1900,”—

(1.) Every postal packet addressed to any person at any premises licensed under “The Licensing Act, 1881,” or at any shipping office, or public or private lodginghouse, and delivered to or received by the licensee of such premises, or the person apparently in charge of such office or lodginghouse, or any one acting as the agent or servant of any such licensee or person, shall be deemed to be under the control of the Postmaster-General until delivered to the person to whom the same is addressed.

(2.) If the same is not so delivered within two months after the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such licensee or other person as aforesaid, and if instructions to the contrary are not received from the person to whom the same is addressed, the licensee or other person as aforesaid shall return the same to the nearest post-office, with the reasons therefor.

(3.) Every such postal packet shall be transmitted to the Dead Letter Office, and shall be there dealt with as undelivered.

(4.) If any such licensee or other person as aforesaid omits or fails to return any such postal packet as aforesaid he is liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

(5.) The foregoing provision of this section shall extend and apply to telegrams transmitted by electric telegraph.



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