✨ Postal Regulations
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
(7.) A moderately soft pad should be used to place under
the letters when being stamped. Any soft book, such
as an old Post and Telegraph Guide, would answer this
purpose in small offices where rubber pads are not
provided.
As bad date-stamping exposes the revenue to much risk of
fraud, careful supervision must be exercised by Chief Postmasters
and Postmasters over the manner in which the duty is performed.
A copy of form P.O. 126 should be sent to the Postmaster at any
office at which it is observed the date-stamping is defective.
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Rubber-stamp ink is on no account to be used in
obliterating stamps on letters or any documents. The preparation
of oil and lampblack known as obliterating-ink, used for
metal stamps, is to be invariably applied for that purpose. Post-
masters supplied with rubber stamps must make requisition for the
proper ink and linen pads. The ordinary obliterating-ink destroys
the rubber, and must not be used. -
The impression of the date-stamp on letters, books,
parcels, and newspapers should be as follows:
On the Front.
All articles when first posted, whether prepaid or not. The
impression must be legibly made on the postage-stamps
unless the stamps are affixed in contravention of any of
these rules.
All articles missent.
All articles surcharged.
Post-cards.
Unclaimed letters, &c. (at sub-offices in black ink, at chief
offices in red ink).
Redirected letters, &c. (at office where redirected).
Delivered letters returned to the post-office.
On the Back.
Letters received at any office (except the offices mentioned in
Rule 630) from another office.
“Forward” letters.
Newspapers posted at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and
Wellington are not to be date-stamped, the obliterating of the
postage-stamps being done with felt stamps. At the same offices
felt “Paid” stamps are to be used for “Paid” newspapers only.
Commercial and printed papers, patterns and samples, and
parcels need not be date-stamped at office of destination or transit
offices.
- A facing-slip (P.O. 378) is to be attached to the out-
side of every bundle of letters, and should be initialled by the
officer who ties the bundle. If any missent letters are found in
the bundle at the office of receipt, the addresses should be entered
on the back of the slip, which must be sent by first mail under
cover to the Chief Postmaster of the district of origin. Letters
must not be added at intermediate offices to bundles already covered
by facing-slips. Letters despatched must be levelled up at the
end on which the postage-stamp is usually placed, and on the
bottom, not the top, of the bundle. This secures that letters all
touch the bed of the stamping-machine as required, and prevents
their being bent over at the “stamp” end and retarded in their
passage through the machine, where action is very rapid, and to
be satisfactory must be continuous. Also letters must be distributed
so that, as far as possible, very thick letters are kept in
separate bundles. Special instructions are issued to offices using
stamping-machines.
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1913, No 29
NZLII —
NZ Gazette 1913, No 29
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