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APPENDIX.
INLAND POSTAGE.
Miscellaneous Regulations and Suggestions.
The Post Office is not, by law, responsible for any loss or incon-
venience which may arise from the damage, non-delivery, mis-sending,
or mis-delivery of any letter, book, or other postal packet, and liability
for actual loss or damage is accepted only in the case of parcels and
registered packets.
Postal packets which are likely to suffer from great pressure should
be placed in strong covers.
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. A Postmaster may, however, give an address if he has no
reason to believe that the person whose address it is would disapprove
of his doing so.
Postmasters are not allowed to return any letter, parcel, or other
postal packet to the writer or sender, or to anyone else, or to delay
forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a
request to such effect be written thereon.
Postmasters are not bound to give change nor are they authorised to
demand it ; and when money is paid at a Post Office, whether as change
•or otherwise, no question as to its right amount, goodness, or weight
can be entertained after it has been removed from the counter.
When a person to whom a letter has been delivered has reason to
think that it has been improperly charged as overweight, the letter
should be taken to a Post Office to be weighed before being opened.
Unless this course is followed, no question as to the correctness of the
surcharge can afterwards be entertained.
Postmasters 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 impeded. This rule does not apply to parcels,
which are tested both as to weight and size before being accepted.
If any postal packet be forwarded under cover to any Postmaster
with a request that he will re-post it at his office, the postal packet, on
being re-posted, will be endorsed with the words "posted at ,
under cover, to the Postmaster of ."
Neither money nor any other article of considerable value ought to
be sent by post, except by means of a Money or Postal Order, or in a
registered letter. Any person who sends money or jewellery otherwise,
not only runs a risk of losing his property without compensation, but
exposes to temptation every one through whose hands the postal packet
passes.
Whenever bank notes are sent by post, even in registered letters,
they should be cut in halves, and the second halves should not be posted
till it has been ascertained that the first halves have been received ; and
further, in order to afford the means of identification, a memorandum
should always be made of the number of each bank note.
(Stamps should be placed on the address side of the letter, and in the
right hand upper corner. On re-directed letters care should be taken
not to place fresh stamps over those which have been previously used.)
Every Rural Postman is required to sell postage stamps and registered
letter envelopes.