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APPENDIX. 17
and in London at any District or Branch Office, or from the Postman of
the walk; and, when filled up and signed, they should be given to the
Postmaster, or to the Postman ; but it is desirable, for the prevention of
mistakes, that persons who are about to change their residence should
inform their correspondents beforehand of their intention, so that their
letters may be directed in the first instance to their new address. If it
is desired that only letters should be re-directed, it must be so stated on
the form ; a separate notice should be filled up if it is desired that
parcels may be re-directed.
7. The Post Office does not undertake the re-direction of letters,
&c, for a person temporarily leaving home, unless the house be left
uninhabited, or of letters, &c. , addressed to Hotels, Boarding-Houses,
or Lodgings.
DELIVERY.
Postmen are prohibited, whether on duty or not, from distributing
any letters, newspapers, parcels, &c, except such as have passed through
the Post.
*No person living within an official delivery, unless he rent a private
box, can have his letters, Sec, or parcels delivered at the office window
if a delivery by Postman or a despatch by messenger is about to take
place; but letters, &c, or parcels which arrive by a mail after which
there is no immediate delivery by Postman, may be obtained by any
person on application at the office window, so long as the office is open
for delivery.
When letters, &c, or parcels, directed to a Post Office for persons
who reside within an official delivery, 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.
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
* All letters, &c, must be delivered as addressed ; but, by payment of a fee of
,£1 is a year, Firms or persons can have letters addressed to their offices delivered at
their private address, and vice versa, provided that both addresses are served from
the same delivery office. By paying 5s a year any person may obtain his registered
letters at the Post Office, even although he does not rent a Private Box.
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