THE PARCEL POST

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 8

THE PARCEL POST

PACKAGES UNDELIVERED AND UNCLAIMED. New regulations have been gazetted defining; the action to be taken by the Post Office in respect to undelivered and unclaimed -parcels. Following is the text of the regulations:— • Posted in' tlie Dominion for Delivery Therein. —AVhen a parcel is refused by the addressee, or known to be undelivcrable, the sender will be immediately communicated with; or, if a parcel is not claimed in fourteen days the sender will be advised, and he may elect to have it re-directed to another address or returned, but he shall j>ay a- fresh rate of postage for such re-direction or return, except whero the original and corrected addresses are botli ..within a delivery from the same post office. Unclaimed parcels will be rotainod at the office from which they should be ■ delivered for one clear month exclusive of the one in which they are received. Tho senders will then bo again advised, and the parcels, if not claimed within, three months from date of ppsting, shall thereupon be forwarded to tho Dead Letter Office, and disposed of as tho Postmaster-General may direct. Any charges for re-direction at tho addresse's request which may have accrued on an undelivered inland parcel are waived oii tho return of the parcel to tho sender.

Received: from' Places Beyond the Dominion.—Parcels originating in the United States of America or any of its dependencies' and unclaimed at the expiration of thirty days from their receipt at the office of destination will bo returned to the office of origin without charge. Parcels originating in. other countries and which cannot he delivered will be kept at the office to which they are addressed for one clear month, irrespective of the ono in which they were received, and, if not claimed, forwarded to the chief post office. . - The senders will be a'dviseil through the Post. Office. ! of the country of origin, and ih:the absence of instructions the parcels originating in Australia will be retained forfour months, and those from other countries six months, from the date of posting of the advice of non-dolivory, and then returned through the Dead I Letter Office to Jibe countries whence they were received.

Parcels with perishable contents may be destroyed immediately they become offensive.