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104 AI'J>LICATIO::\'S FOR fiECALL OF LEITJ>ItS.
W ALTIIA..\1 PARK ROAD -up to 22 and 31~-Whitficld Pen
Do. over . . Half-Way-Tree
W ATEilt.OO ROAD -up to 24 and 19- Hnlf-\Vny-Tree
Do. over . . Constaut Spring
W INDWARD RoAD - up to 16 and 67-Kingston
o\·er . . Windward Road
TIM IN P05T OFI"ICE 5ERV1Ct:.
Limited train Post Offices are maintained on the through line between Kingston and
Montego Buy nod Port Antonio where postage stamp~, etc., may be bought and
telegraph forms obtained.
lU~ DIRECTION 01, COimE5PONDENCE.
The Post Office only undertakes to a•edirect w h en the
lettefl"s or . othel" postal packet s cannot be redirected at the
place of address. It does not, for example, redirect postal packets addre.;sed
to a person who has temporarily left his house, unless the house be left uninhabited; or
addressed to clubs, hotels, bonrding 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 iB desired that parcels should be redirected.
A notice of l'emoval holds good for three months.
The De)Jart,ment does not undertake to divert, at the General Post Office, letters
addressed to one Post Office to ano~her Post Office in the island. An effort will, however,
be made, as far as the exigencies of the Service allow, to sen·e the public by delivering
in IGngston letters addressed to a district Post Office or by directing them from one
office to anoth~r.
APPLICATION5 FOR RECALL OF L E TTE1?5.
No letter, parcel or other post!ll packet can, when once it has been posted in a Post Office
receptacle or accepted for transmission at a Post Officl', 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 t.o its address and cannot be di \'erted to atJy other address.
Pl'liVATE LETTER 60A.E5 AND 6AG5,
Private letter boxes, available for tbe 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 impcrtant
oversea mails) may be rented for 12s, a year at the Post Offices of Kingston, Port Antonio,
Montego Bay, Mnndeville, 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 JamaiC1\ a.ny 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; tbc 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 t hrough the Postmaster
for Jamaica.
P05T E RI:5TANT E.
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 t.o initials, or to fictitious names, or to a cbristian unmc without a
surname are not taken in at the Poste Restante, but arc treated as undelivered and
returned to senders.
Period of Retention of Posl:e Rcstante Correspondence.
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Origin. At Kingston. At District Post Offices.
Places a broad Four weeks Eight weeks
Local Two weeks Four weeks