SPECIAL NOTICE FROM THE POST OFFICE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9396, 17 March 1909, Page 6

SPECIAL NOTICE FROM THE POST OFFICE.

MONEY-LETTERS

(Request for Registration). The Post Office, by means of a oonspiouions notice placed over every posting-box in the Dominion, cautions the public against sending money and ■valuable articles in unregistered letters. Notwithstanding this warning, money continues t« be sent by post in unregistered letters in the 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 ate found loose in the mail-bags, having burst their envelopes, and as frequently letters filed with notes are carelessly thrown into railway vans for the guard to deliver with . the mails. Many other oases could be instanced of carelessness on the part of the pnblio 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 oast on every one concerned--viz., on the person'supposed to have posted the letter, the officers of the post-office through whose bands the letter would pass, and the person who wonld in ordinary course receive the letter from the post-office, either from a street-door, letter-box, 01 a private letter-box, over the post-office counter, or from the hands of a letter-carrier.

No record is kept of unregistered letters, and persons who post such letters containing money expose to temptation every one throngh whose hands they may pass, and in the event of non-delivery suspicion is oast on many innocent persons.

The public are again earnestly quested 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 twopence. Receipts are given for registered letters. The letters are traced from hand to hand, and a receipt obtained on delivery; therefore it is very rare a registered letter is lost. W. R. MORRIS, Aoting-Seoretary. General Post Office, Wellington, January Ist, 1909.