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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
120. —Postal officials are not bound to weigh for the public, letters, books, packets'
or newspapers brought for the post, but they may do so if their duty be not thereby
xnpeded. This rule does not apply to parcels, which are tested both as to weight and
size before being accepted.
121. —No information can be given respecting letters or any other postal packets,
except to the persons to whom they are addressed, and in no other way is official
information of a private character allowed to be made public.
122. —The Post Office is not legally liable for any loss or inconvenience which may
arise from the damage, delay, non-delivery, mis-sending, or mis-delivery of any letter or
other postal packet, but liability for actual loss or damage is accepted on certain condi¬
tions in the case of parcels and registered packets.
123. —All complaints should be addressed to the Postmaster-General, and if marked
“ On Postal Business ” will be forwarded free. The cover of any correspondence about
which complaint is made should if possible be forwarded with such complaint. When
correspondence has been mis-sent or delayed (both of which are liable to happen occa¬
sionally), all that the complainant need do is to write on the cover, Sent to or
Delivered at or Not received till , or as the case may be, and forward
it, without any note or letter whatever, to the Postmaster-General. Attention to this
would save much writing and needless trouble.
124. —As full information regarding articles that can and that can not be sent by
Post is published, under the proper heads, in the “Postal Guide,” no application will be
entertained for the refund of the value of postage stamps on correspondence which is dis¬
covered, after the postage labels have been obliterated, to contain any prohibited article,
or which exceeds the limit of weight, or which for any other reason cannot be for¬
warded and has consequently to be returned to the sender, and any loss resulting from
a non-observance of the Ptules by the sender of an article must be borne by him.
PiEGISTRATION AND INSURANCE
Registration
125.—The ordinary registration fee for each letter or other postal packet is 10
cents.
128.—Every description of paid correspondence may be registered except such as
is addressed in pencil, or is addressed to initials or fictitious names, or is not properly
fastened and secured.
. 127.—The sender of any registered article may obtain any acknowledgment of its
delivery to the addressee by paying in advance at the time of posting a fee of 10 cents
in addition to the postage and registration fee. The sender must enter in the form
provided for the purpose both his own name and address and the name and address of
the person to whom the packet is sent, and he must also affix to the form a stamp or
stamps of the value of 10 cents in payment of the fee.
128. —Letters are accepted for registration at the General Post Office and. at the
Branch Offices.
129. —Every article to be registered must be given to an officer or agent of the Post
Office and a receipt obtained for it. It should bear the name and address of the-sender
on the lower left-hand corner of the face of the cover.
130. —If an article bearing the word “Registered” or any other word, phrase, or
mark to the like effect, or a Registration envelope intended by the sender to go forward
as an ordinary letter, be dropped into a letter box it will, if directed to any place at
which delivery can be made by Hongkong or its Agencies, be compulsorily registered,
and charged on delivery with a registration fee of 20 cents.
. 131,—Officers employed in the Registration Department are forbidden to address
registered mail matter, to enclose it in the envelope, seal it, or affix the stamps.
132. —Letters, etc., bearing on the outside a declaration of the value of the contents
cannot be transmitted by post to places abroad unless they are insured.
133. —-All registered letters or packets on being redirected must be taken back to the
Registration Department to be dealt with as registered, and must not be dropped into
a letter-box as ordinary letters or packets. If brought later than the day (Sundays
and public holidays not being counted) after delivery, a fresh registration fee as well as
tresh postage will be required.
Compensation, etc.
„ • 134.—The Postmaster-General is not legally responsible for the safe delivery of
gis ered correspondence, but will be prepared to make good the value of such