UNDELIVERED LETTERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8343, 1 February 1913, Page 7

UNDELIVERED LETTERS

.NEW REGULATIONS POE EETUEN. Two new regulations dealing with, the disposal of “special request” correspondence by the Poet Office are gaaatted this week. Under the new rules undelivered letters and other articles, except parcels, bearing the full name and address of the sender printed or written on the outside are returned direct and unopened by the chief postmasters. Such articles having a request on the address side of the covers of the following purport: “If not delivered return to ,” are disposed of in the same way. A special request that letters and other articles posted in New Zealand, if not delivered within a stated period, be redirected to an address outside New Zealand will no be compltied with. Such correspondence will be sent to the dead letter office in the usual way. Undelivered inland printed matter prepaid id bearing a special request for its return to the sender will be returned and charged id postage, but if it bears no such request and is of no intrinsic value it will be destroyed. .Letteis and other articles originating outside New Zealand which bear a special request for return to the sender if not delivered within a stated period are sent by chief postmasters at the end of such period to the dead letter office, Wellington, for immediate fStnrn to the country of origin. Printed matter posted outside the Dominion, which bears Ehereon a special request for return to an address in New Zealand if not delivered, or in respect of which flie sender makes such an application, will be so returned, but if prepaid Id only it will be charged id postage.