Special Notice from the Post Office.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 February 1911, Page 4

Special Notice from the Post Office.

MONEY LETTERS

REQUEST FOR REGISTRATION

The Post Office, by means of a con. spumous notice placed over overy posting box in tlie dominion, cautions the public agayist sending money and valuable articles in unregistered letters. Notwithstanding this warning, money continues to be sent by post in unregistered! letters .in tho most careless manner. It will hardly be credited by people w.lvo exercise' ordinary prudence in .such matters that it is a common thing to find in the post office letters crainmcd full with bank notes, very often in tiho flimsiest of covers. Frequently the contents protrude from the envelopes, or are found loose in the mail bags, having burst their envelopes: and as frequently letters filled wii'h notes are carelessly thrown loose into railway vans for tbe guard to deliver with the mails. Many other cases could be instanced of carelessness on the part of the public in sending money by post-. It often 'happens that letters containing money are alleged to have been lost in the post office, and it has generally been proved that such letters were either not posted or were mislaid or lost after due delivery. When an unregistered money letter, alleged to have been sent by post, is reported missing, it may happen that suspicion is cast on every one concerned—viz., on the person supposed to have posted the letter the officers of tho post office through whose hands tbe letter would pass, and the person who would in ordinary course receive the letter from the post office either from a street door letter box or a private letter box, over the post office counter, or from the bands of a letter carrier.

No record is kept ef unregistered letters, and persons who post such letters containing money expose to temptation every one through whose ibands they map pass, and in the e\-ent of non-delivery suspicion is cast on many innocent persons. The public are again earnestly rc(fiiesled to "register" all letters containing money or valuables- intended t'o be sent by post. Letters can be registered at every post office in the dominion, and tilie fee for such registration is only twopence. The Department sells registered letter envelopes at all post-offices. These are made of paper of good finality, and are. embossed with a 3u stamp representing pastage of Id, and registration fee, 2d. Receipts are given for registered letters. The letters are traced from (band to hand, and a receipt obtained on delivery; therefore it is very rare that a registered letter is losi. The best and safest way of sending money through the post office is by means of money orders ov postal notes. A money order pnva'ble in New Zealand costs only 3d for enoli £5 or fraction of £». •Postal ■■notes for Is up to 2s fid cost Jd each; for 3s and ss. Id each; for 10s, los and 20s, 2d each. Particulars in respect of money orders and postal orders for transmission beyond New Zealand may be found in the Post and Telegraph Guide, or obtained 1 at any .post office where money order business is-trans-acted. By order. D. .-ROBERTSON, Seeretarv. General Post Office, Wellington, Nov. 1, 1910.