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rOST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
■value should not be sent through the post, even if
regbtered ; as the machinery of the Department is not
arranged with a view to such transmissions. If sent
■unregistered valuable articles are exposed to risk, and
offer a temptation which ought not to be afforded.
Inland letters or packets which contain coin,
watches, or jewellery, if posted without registration,
are treated as registered, and charged on delivery
with a registration fee of eightpence in addition
to the ordinary postage; and any such letters or
packets which cannot be registered in time to be for-
warded by the JIail for which they are posted, are
detained for the next despatch.
9. By law the Postmaster General is not re-
sponsible for the safe delivery of registered articles,
but subject to certain rules, which may be ascertained
at any Post Office, he will (voluntarily and as an act
of grace) give compensation for the loss and damage
of Inland registered letters and other registered postal
packets. The amount of compensation varies accord-
ing to the fee paid, but in no case can it exceed £10.
10. No town postman is allowed to take a letter
to be registered ; but rural postmen will take letters
for registration on their outward and inward walks,
whenever it is practicable for them to do so.
Re- direction.
1. Every inland re-directed letter, post-card, or
other postal packet, is liable to an additional postage
(at the prepaid rate) for each re-direction, unless both
tlie original and the second address be within the
delivery of the same Post Office, or Sub- Office, or
rural walk, and the re-direction be made by an Officer
of the Post Office.
Exception. — No charge for re-direction is made
on Government letters. (See also par. 6.)
■2. An inland registered letter, when re-directed to
any place within the United Kingdom, is only liable
to the same additional charge as an ordinary letter.
S. If an inland registered letter, when re-directed,
instead of being taken back to the Post Office to be dealt
with as a registered letter, is dropped into the letter
box as an ordinarj' letter (the word " registered" not
having been erased, or having been erased in pencil
only), it becomes liable to the same treatment as any
other letter which is marked ''registered" and found
in the letter box, and must be surcharged with a
registration fee of eightpence, minus the value of any
stamps already affixed for the registration.
4. Notices of removal, and applications for letters
to be re- directed must, in all cases, be duly signed
by the persons to wliom the letters are addressed,
and in provincial towns they must be sent to the
local Postmaster. Printed forms of notice can be
obtained at the Head Office on application. A sepa-
rate notice should be filled up if it is desired that
parcels may be re-directed.
5. A Postmaster is not bound to re-direct letters
for a person temporarily leaving his home, and not
having a private bag or box, unless the house be
left uninhabited.
6. Letters addressed to non-commissioned officers,
schoolmasters in the army, schoolmistresses in the
army, private soldiers, and seamen in the navy, re-
directed from one part of the United Kingdom to
another, or from the United Kingdom to a place abroad
(when the removal is on service), provided the original
postage is prepaid and the letters do not exceed half
an ounce in weight, will be delivered to them without
any charge for re-direction. Parcels, however, are
liable to the rules which apply to ordinary re-directed
parcels.
Collection.
Arrangements are made for the collection by
postmen of ordinary letters, &c. (not registered letters
or articles intended for transmission by parcel post)
from private letter boxes of approved pattern at
hotels, business premises, offices, &c.
The charge for this accommodation is as follows : —
For one collection daily from a box on the ground
floor, £3 a year.
For each daily collection above one an additional
£1 a year.
For boxes above or below the ground floor an addi-
tional £1 a year in respect of every floor the col-
lector has to ascend or descend to make the
collections.
For each additional person or firm beyond one making
use of the box, £1 a j-ear.
Pursuant to the terms of section 19 of the Post
Office (Protection) Act, 1884, the following notice
will be affixed to these boxes, viz. : —
'' A Postal packet put into this box will not for
the purpose of any enactment, law, or contract,
whereby the due posting of a Postal packet is evi-
dence of the receipt thereof by the addressee, be
deemed to have been duly posted."
Applications in regard to the collections from
private posting boxes should be made to the Post-
master.
Delivery.
1. Postmen are prohibited from distributing any
letters, newspapers, &c., except such as have passed
through a Post Office.
2. No person living -within an official delivery,
unless he rent a private box, can claim to have his
letters or parcels delivered at the office window if
a delivery by postmen or a despatch by messenger
is about to take place ; but letters or parcels which
arrive by a mail after which there is no immediate
delivery by postmen, may be obtained by any person
on application at the office window, so long as the
office is open for delivery.
3. When letters or parcels directed to a Post Office
for persons who reside within a free delivery from such
office, but who have no private box, arrive by a mail
for which there is a delivery from house to house, a
Postmaster may refuse to deliver them at the window,
and may send them out by the postmen, except
such as are addressed to the military in barracks.
4. No person can have a private box unless he
is willing to pay the appointed fee. The fee is at
the rate of £3 per annum, payable in advance.
Special arrangements are made for locked bags to
and from the renters of private boxes and the Post
Office.
A Returned Letter Office is established in
Glasgow, and all undeliveiable letters addressed to
Glasgow and its sub-offices are disposed of there.
On reaching the Returned Letter Office a letter
originating in the United Kingdom is at once opened,
and if found to contain the writer's address is
returned to him. If it does not contain either the
writer's address or an article of value the letter is
destroyed. Any letter or packet which on being
opened is found to contain value is, for its safety,
recorded and returned registered and, unless regis-
tered at the time of posting, the registration fee of