POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 139, 15 March 1909, Page 2

POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.

The Post office authorities are again complaining that notwithstanding repeated warnings valuables continue to be sent by post in unregistered letters in a most careless manner. It will hardly be credited by people who exercise ordinary prudence in such matters that it is a common thing to find in the Post office letters crammed full with bank notes, very often in the flimsiest of covers. Frequently the contents protrude from the envelopes or are found loose in the mailbags, having burst their envelopes, and as frequently letters filled with notes are carelessly thrown loose into railway vans for the guard to deliver with the mails. 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 letter alleged to have been sent by post is reported missing it may happen that suspicion is cast on everyone concerned. The authorities once more request the public to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post. Letters can be registered at every post office in the Dominion, and the fee for such registration is only 2d. These letters can be traced from hand to hard and a receipt obtained on delivery; therefore it is very rare that a registered letter is lost.