Page 11 - Jamaica PO Guide 1924

POST OFFICE HA1"DBOOK.
HOUSE D ELIVE~Y.
(KtNO$TON AND LOW Ell ST. ANDRilW ,)
Correspondence is dolivcrcd by lett~r carriers in a!! P'"ts or the City of Kingston in.
·eluding Smith's Village, llnnnah Town, Campbell Town, I<'mnklin Town Brown's T~wn
Passmor~ Town, the northern limit-F.: of Amold Honcl and South C.nrnp Ilo~d incluclin~ th~
Goodwin !.and" and t.o t.hc C~8t of tlw cit_,, as far ns Kensington l!.ofld, fo~r times dn:lv.
viz., 8.30 a.m . 10.30 a.m . 1.30 p.m. and 4.15 pm ·
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Correspondr..c~ is delivered in Lower St. Andrcw as below:-
From fuLifWAY Tn&& Post Office at 8.30 a. m. and 2 p.m.
NoaTn-onmperdowo Switch on the Constant Spring Road and the road leadrog ~ 0
King's Ho118e.
SouTR-()xford Road, I<encot Lands inclu<cd.
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EAST-Matilda's Corner and Hope !load, from Oxford !load.
WEsT-Hagl··v J>nrk on Ha~lcy Park Road, '.\lolines Hond to junction with Tnrrnnt
I.ane, Old Pound Road and Lyndhurst Road to junction of Hctircmcnt Road
From Cnoss !toADS Post Office at 9.1.5 a.m and 2 p.m :-
Nonm-From Caose RoAns l'ost Office, along Caledonia Avenue, up to Halfway
Tree and Hope !toad to corner of Oxford Road.
SouTn-Torringt.on Bridge and Slipe Pen Road.
EAsT-Maresc>tux Road.
WEST-From Cross R oad•, along Retirement Hoad to onrner of Lyodhurst Road and
Old Pound Road, includin~ flrentford Road.
~EDI~ ECTI ON Of' CO~I~ESPONDENCE.
Any postal packet may be redirected to the same addressee ~~ another address either
by an officer of tlf Post Office or by an agent of the addresace after delivery.
The fee for detaining nod delivering in Kingston, psckd letters addressed to District
Post Offices, or for detaining and re-directing such letters to any other postal address
is Is for each service.
APPLICATION5 f'OQ QECALL OF LETTE~S.
No letter, parcc! or olher postn' packet Ctlll, when once it has been posted in a Po t
Office receptacle or accepted for trnnsmi~sion at n Post Office, be tnl<en out of the post,
even if application be made for it by a person who can prove thut be i ; the sender, with-
out the authorily of the Govemor. Nor t:o.u it be de·nincd or delaved at the sender's
request; it muat b~ forwarded to ita address and cnnnot be diverted 'to any other ad-
dress.
PQIVAT E LETTEQ 50XES AND 5AGS.
Private letter boxes, available for the subscribers' use from i a.m. fi115.30 p.m. on
week days (and also for two or three hours after t h~ arrival of important over-sea mails),
may be rented for l~s. a year at the Post Offices of Kingston, Port Antonio, Montego
Bay snd Mandevillc.
Private bags.-By permission of the Po tmaster for Jamaica any pe·son may have his
lettere conveyed to and from the Post Offi ·e in a private bag upon payment of an
annual fee of one guinea. The bag to be locked, one key being kept by the Postmaster
and one by the owner oi the bag.
When a private letter bng is conveyed by a mnil cont.ractor a further annual fee of
one guinea is to be pa.id. These fees must be p3id in advance through th ' Po,t.master
for Jamaica.
P05TE. ~ESTANTE.
The Poste Restante is intended solely for t.he nccomrnodntion of stranger• and travellers
a nd even they may not use it for more than three months.
Letters addrea~ed to initials, or to fictitious names, or to a christian name without a
surname are not taken in at the Poste Restante, but are treated as undelivered and
returned to senders.
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l'eriod of Retention of Undelivered Corresp~dence:
Origin. At Kingston. At Dis: rict Post Offices.
Places abroad .. Four weeks F.igbt weeks
Local T"'o weeks Four weeks
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