Page 68 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1938

78 APPLICATIONS FOR RECALL OF LETTERS.

W a l t h a m P a r k R o a d — up to 22 and 31|—Whitfield Pen
Do. over .. Half-Way-Tree
W a t e r l o o R o a d — -up to 24 and 19—Half-Way-Tree
Do. over .. Constant Spring
W i n d w a r d R o a d -up to 16 and 67—Kingston
over .. Windward Road
TRAIN POST OFFICE SERVICE.
Limited train Post Offices are maintained on the through line between Kingston and
Montego Bay and Port Antonio where postage stamps, etc., may be bought and
telegraph forms obtained.
REDIRECTION OF CORRESPONDENCE.
The P ost O ffice only undertakes to redirect when the
letter s or oth er postal packets can n ot be redirected at the
place o f address. It does not, for example, redirect postal packets addressed
to a person who has temporarily left his house, unless the house be left uninhabited; or
addressed to clubs, hotels, boarding houses, or lodgings; or delivered through a private
letter box.
Notices of removal and applications for redirection must be signed by the persons to
whom the packets to be redirected are addressed. Separate notices must be filled up
if it is desired that parcels should be redirected.
A notice of removal holds good for three months.
The Department does not undertake to divert, at the General Post Office, letters
addressed to one Post Office to another Post Office in the island. An effort will, however,
be made, as far as the exigencies of the Service allow, to serve the public by delivering
in Kingston letters addressed to a district Post Office or by directing them from one
office to another.
APPLICATIONS FOR RECALL OF LETTERS.
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 Post 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.
PRIVATE LETTER BOXES AND BAGS
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 in Kingston after the arrival of important
oversea mails) may be rented for 12s, a year at the Post Offices of Kingston, Port Antonio,
Montego Bay, Mandeville, Savanna-la-Mar and May Pen. Letters addressed to the
house address of a person renting a letter box will be delivered as addressed. Only letters
specifically addressed to the letter box or business address of the renter of the box will
be assorted in the box.
Private bags.—By permission of the Postmaster for Jamaica any person may have his
letters conveyed by his bearer to and from the Post Office in a private bag upon payment
of an annual fee of one guinea, the bag to be locked, one key being kept by the Post­
master and one by the owner of the bag; the bag to be provided by the owner.
When a private letter bag is conveyed by a mail contractor a further annual fee of
one guinea is to be paid. These fees must be paid in advance through the Postmaster
for Jamaica.
POSTE RESTANTE.
The Poste Restante or General Delivery is intended solely for the accommodation of
strangers and travellers and even they may not use it for more than three months.
Letters addressed 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.
Period of Retention of Poste Restante Correspondence.
Origin. At Kingston. At District Post Offices.
Places abroad Four weeks Eight weeks
Local Two weeks Four weeks