Page 57 - Jamaica PO Guide 1928

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ADPU CAT ION5 FO~ m : CALL OF u:rrE1~5.
No letter, parcel or other postal packet can, when once it has been posted in a Post Office
receptacle or accepted for transmission at a l'ost Office, be taken out of the post, even
if application be made for it by a person who can prove that he is the sender, without
the authority of the Governor. Nor can it be detained or delayed at the sender's request;
it must be forwarded to its address and cannot be diverted to any other address.
PI~I VATE LETTE~ BOX.E5 AND BAG5.
Private letter boxes, available for the subscribers' use from 7 a.m. till 5.30 p.m. on
week days (and also for two or three hours after the arrival of important oversea mails)
may be rented for 12s. a year at the Post Offices of Kingston, Port Antonio, M ontego
Bay and Mandeville.
Private ba),'S.- By permission of the Postmaster for Jamaica any person may have his
letters conveyed to and from the Post Office in a private bag upon payment of an ann.ual
fee of one guinea. The bag to be locked, one key being kept by the Postmaster and
one by the owuer of the bag.
When a private letter bag is conveyed by n 1nail contractor 11 further annual fee of
one guinea is to be paid. These fees must be paid in advance through the l'ostmaster
for Jamaica.
POSTE ~E5TANTE.
The Poste Rcstante is intended solely for the accommodation of strangers and travellers
and even t.hey may not use it for more than three mouths.
Letters addressed to initials, or to fictitious names, or to a christian name without a
surname are not taken in at the Poste Restaute, but are treated as undelivered and
returned to senders.
Period of Retention of Undelivered Correspondence
Origin. At. Kingston At District Post Offices.
Places abroad Four ~weeks. Eight weeks
Local Two weeks Four weeks
5Tl~EET COLLECTING BOXE.S.
Collecting boxes are to be found at the following places in Kingston and Lower Si•
Andrew. (The times at which they are cleared are stated on each.)
1. King and North Streets 26. Duke and J:I:arbour Streets
2. Colonial Secretary's Office 27. M an eh ester Square, South R.a.ce Course
3. Charles and East Streets 28. La.ws and East Streets
4. Kingston Gardens 29. Hannab St. and Rose Lane
5. Fire Brigade Station 30. Arnold Road, north of Connolly Aven.
6. Jamaica Club 31. Studley Park Road
7. Torringto.n Bri.dge 32. South Camp Road Hotel
8. All man Town Constabulary Station 33. Marescaux Road and Club Lane
9. South Camp Road near North Street 34. Hope and 0Jo.iord Roads
10· Highholborn and Laws Streets 35. Retirement Road near Retirement Pen
11. Park Lodge 36. Knutsford Park Gate
12. Brown's Town Constabulary Station 37. King's I'!;ouse Gate
13. Tower Street and Elletson Road 38. Bedford Pa,rk Gate on the Constant
14. Marine Gardens Spring Line near Sandy Gully
15. Spanish Town Road and Beeston Street 39. Barbican Road
16. Parade, by Parish Church 40. Papine Corner
17. Princess and Harbour Streets 41. Brent.ford and Curphey Roads
18. Princess and West Queen Streets 42. Grove & Cent.ral Road~, Kencot Lands
19. Gardner's, Harbour Street 43. Molines Road and 'l'arrant Lane
20. Orange Street and Port Royal Street 44. Hope and Trafalgar Roads.
21. Orange and Charles Streets 45. Beechwood Ave. and Halfway Tree
22. Franklin Town Police Station Road.
23. Smith Village, Percy and Wellington Sts. 46. Penn and Rodney Streets, (Admjral
24. Cnmpbell 'l'own, Liverpool & Hampton Pen).
Streets. 47. Spanish Town Road and Old Pound
25. Woodford Park P.oad.
Collecting boxes have also been erected in Savanna-la-Mar, Port Antonio and
Montego Bay.