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POST OFFtdt
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of this regulation will be liable to be withheld
from delivery. Any packet of such a form
or so made up for transmission by post as to be
likely to embarrass the officers of the Depart-
,ment is also liable to be withheld from delivery.
Registration and Compensation.
The Postmaster General will (not in conse-
quence of any legal liability, but voluntarily,
and as an act of grace), subject to the rules
laid down, give compensation up to a maximum
limit of £400 for the loss and damage of Inland
Registered Postal Packets of all kinds upon
prepayment of a fee in addition to the postage.
The scale of fees and the respective limits of
compensation are as foUows : —
Limit of
Fee.
Limit of
Compensation .
Compensation.
2d.
£5
Is. Id.
£220
3d.
£20
Is. 2d.
£240
4d.
£40
Is. 3d.
£260
5d.
£60
Is. 4d.
£280
6d.
£S0
Is. 5d.
£300
7d.
£100
Is. 6d.
£320
8d.
£120
Is. 7d.
£340
9d.
£140
Is. 8d.
£360
lOd.
£100
Is. 9d.
£380
lid.
£180
Is, lOd.
£400
Is.
£200
Acknowledgment of Delivery of Registered Postal
Packets.
The sender of an inland registered letter,
parcel, or other registered postal packet may
obtain an acknowlwigment of its due delivery
to the addressee by paying in advance, at the
time of posting, a fee of 2d. in addition to the
postage and registration fee. He can also
obtain an acknowledgment if he applies after
posting and pays 2d. The sender must enter
In the form provided for the purpose both lus
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
ot the value of 2d. in payment of the fee.
Every inquiry as to the aUeged loss or non-
delivery of a registered packet should be
accompanied by this fee, and ehould, if possible,
be made upon the acknowledgment of delivery
lorm. If it IB found that the Depsrtmeut is in
fault the inquiry fee will be refunded.
Conveyance of Singh Post Ltttert by Railway.
By an agreement with the Postmaster
General certain Railway Companies are per-
mitted to accept and convey by the next
available train or steamship Single Inland Post
Letters, not exceeding 4 oz. io weight, either
to be called for at the station of address, or to
be transferred there to the nearest Post Office
Letter Box for delivery by postman. In
addition to the postage of Id., which must be
prepaid by means of adhesive stamps, the
Companies are aathorised to charge a fee of
2d. per letter. For a list of the Companies
and further particulars, see the current edition
of the Post Office Guide.
N.B. — Save in the case of a letter exempted
from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster
General (se© Post Office Guide), no letter can
legally be sent by Railway otherwise than in
His Majesty's Mails, or in the manner above
described. Any person who sends or conveys
or causes to be sent or conveyed otherwise
than by the Post a letter not so exempted, or
any person who performs, otherwise than by
the Post, any services incidental to the con
veying of letters from place to place, is liable
by statute to heavy penalties.
Re-direction.
1. No charge is made for the re-directiou
of letters, post cards, newspapers, and half;
penny packets, whether registered or not, and
whether re-directed by an officer of the Posi
Office or by an agent of the addressee aftei
delivery, provided in the latter case that the^
are re-posted not later than the day (Sundays
and public holidays not being counted) aftei
delivery, and that they do not appear to hav<
been opened, or tampered with.
2. Re-directed letters, &c., which are
posted later than the day after delivery wil
be liable to charge at the prepaid rate ; anj
which appear to have been opened will b'
charged as freshly posted unpaid letters o:
packets.
3. Parcels are, when re-directed, liable
additional postage at the prepaid rate for eacl
re-direction, except where the original anc
corrected addresses are both within a deliver;
from the same Post Office.
4. If any registered letter or packet, whei
re-directed, instead of being taken back to th
Post Office to be dealt with as registered,
dropped into the letter box as an ordinar;
letter or packet (the word " registered " no
having been erased, or having been erased ii
pencil only), it becomes liable to the sami
treatment as any other letter or packet whic)
is marked registered and found in the lette
box ; and must be surcharged with a regis
tration fee of 4d., minus the value of an;
stamps already affixed for the registration
5. Notices of removal and applications fo
letters, &c., to be re-directed, must in all case
be duly signed by the persons to whom th'
letters are addressed. Printed forms can b^
obtained from the local Postmaster, and
London at any District or Branch Office,
from the postman of the walk ; and, whei
filled up and signed, they should be given t<
the Postmaster or to the postman ; but it i
desirable, for the prevention of mistakes, tha
persons who are about to change their resideno
should inform their correspondents beforehant
of their intention, so that their letters may bi
directed in the first instance to their nev
address. The Post Office does not undertafc
to provide for the re-direction of letters
halfpenny packets, post cards, and newspaperJH
for a longer period than twelve months frosllt