Page 66 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

POST OFFICE GUIDE 65

General Information: Delivery of Correspondence, contd.

A private box may not be rented or used by more than one person, firm or
corporation except that correspondence addressed to employees of the renter
or to any person care of the renter may be placed in the box.
The box number should form part of the address of correspondence addressed
to a boxholder.
No person may rent a box under an assumed name or for an improper purpose.

A boxholder may not cede or transfer his box to any other person.

If the key of a box is lost a charge of $2.50 is made for a new key.
Delivery into a box is in all respects deemed equivalent to personal delivery to
the addressee.

Any mail matter erroneously delivered, or which through wrong address is
sorted into a private box must be returned immediately to the Post Office with the
words “Not for Box No..............” written thereon.

The Postmaster General may in his absolute discretion, refuse to allot a box to
to an applicant without assigning any reason for so doing, or may withdraw the
privilege of renting a box by giving to the renter a month’s notice of his intention
to do so.

Advice Lists
On payment of an additional annual fee of S4 the renter of private letter
box shall be entitled to receive a serially numbered registered advice list contain­
ing particulars of the number and place of origin of registered articles delivered
to him.

Private Letter Bags
By permission of the Postmaster General any person may have his letters
conveyed to and from the Post Office in a private bag on payment of an ann­
ual fee of:—
(a) Eight dollars when the bag is conveyed by an employee of the holder of
the bag;
(b) Ten dollars when it is conveyed by a mail contractor, a mail Courier
or other employee of the Post and Telegraphs Department.
The fees are payable in advance.
The bag, to be provided by the person requiring the service should be fitted
‘th a lock, one key of which is kept by the Post Office and the other by the owner
the bag.

'Vhere a private letter box, advice list or private letter bag service is introduced
v *er the 1st April of any year the rental up to the 31st March of the following
is calculated at the rate of one-twelfth for each month, part of a month, a
°ken period of the first month being reckoned as a full month.