New Zealand Gazette – 1922 – No. 60

Page 2122

✨ Parcel-Post Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

  1. (a.) All parcel-receptacles belonging to other Administra-
    tions are to be returned to the country of origin by the first
    opportunity, as many as necessary being used for enclosing parcels.
    Such receptacles must not be returned in any other way than
    through one of the offices making up direct parcel-mails for the
    country of origin.
    (b.) In order to minimize the number of empty receptacles
    carried along the coast, receptacles belonging to other Administra-
    tions may be used for the transmission of parcels to the final port
    of embarkation (usually Wellington), but with this exception the
    use in the inland service of receptacles belonging to other Adminis-
    trations is strictly forbidden. Any irregular use in the inland
    service of parcel-post receptacles belonging to another Administra-
    tion is to be reported to the Secretary.
    (c.) The despatch from one New Zealand office to another of
    receptacles belonging to other Administrations must always be
    advised on form P.P. 48.
    (d.) Chief Postmasters at despatching offices will return parcel-
    receptacles by first mail to country of origin. Returned empties
    should be, as far as possible, packed one within another. When
    being returned, empty receptacles must be sealed. The weight of
    empty receptacles should be included in the advice of gross
    weight and tare in parcel-bills to London.

ARRIVAL OF FOREIGN PARCEL-MAILS.

  1. Parcel-mails must be subjected to the same scrutiny as
    ordinary mails.

  2. Parcels must be carefully unpacked, one by one, and,
    with the exception of ordinary parcels from the United Kingdom,
    checked with the parcel bill, and if any parcel is found open or
    in a torn or injured condition it must be refastened, sealed with
    the official seal or by means of one of the labels provided for
    securing open letters, and initialled by the officer affixing the seal
    or label. The circumstance should be reported.

  3. Parcel-mails made up in London are divided as fol-
    lows :—

Parcel-mail for Contains Parcels for Postal District of
Auckland .. Auckland, Hamilton, Thames.
Christchurch .. Christchurch, Timaru.
Dunedin .. Dunedin, Oamaru, Invercargill.
Wellington .. Wellington, Wanganui, Gisborne, Napier, New Ply-
mouth, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth.

  1. Parcel-lists are furnished in duplicate by the London
    Office, and one copy will frequently arrive in advance of the
    mail. When the mail has been disposed of one copy is to be
    forwarded to the Secretary (Postal Division), General Post Office.

  2. When intercolonial or foreign parcel-mails are opened at
    offices other than those to which they are addressed, the parcel-bills
    on which the Customs duty has been assessed should be sent to the
    Secretary (Postal Division), and duplicates to the office of address.
    (But see Rule 853.) Parcels-bills are in all cases to be checked,
    signed, and date-stamped at the offices at which the mails are
    opened.

  3. Receiving officers must weigh the parcel-mails received
    from London when such mails have been conveyed along the New
    Zealand coast by steamers not owned by the owners of the steamers
    by which the mails have been conveyed to the Dominion. In such
    cases the gross and net weights must be entered on the parcel-bill,
    and the net weight must be entered on the advice of reshipment



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