The regulations referred to in Postage Due Stamps Of Australia Part I  

REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF POSTAGE DUE STAMPS IN LIEU OF DOCKETS. 

Approved by the Governor in Council, 24th March, 1890. 

1.         These Regulations shall be in lieu of clauses 77 and 93 of the " General Regulations for the Conduct and Guidance of Postmasters," which are hereby cancelled. 

2.         Every letter, packet, or newspaper liable to a charge for collection on delivery will be stamped T on the address side, and the amount of the tax expressed in figures. All old “more to pay" stamps to be returned to the Stores Branch. 

3.         Special Postage Due stamps are to be used for the collection of unpaid or insufficiently paid postage on all classes of correspondence. 

4.         Postage Due stamps shall in no case be sold by any Postmaster nor received by him in payment of postage. 

5.         Au advance of Postage Due stamps of various denominations will be made to every Postmaster, who will be required to sign a receipt for the same and who will be held accountable at any time for the full amount thereof. A sufficient quantity of Postage Due stamps must be kept oil hand by every Postmaster to meet public requirements. 

6.         Postmasters will requisition, when necessary, on the Head Office for further supplies of Postage Due stamps, and forward cash in the same manner that they do for ordinary Postage or Duty stamps. 

7.         No mail matter is to be delivered until the postage due thereon has been paid. 

8.         Postmasters, before delivering taxed correspondence, must affix or cause to be affixed and cancelled, as ordinary stamps are cancelled, one or more Postage Due stamps equivalent in value to the amount of postage due.

9.         Any Postmaster or other person engaged in the postal service who shall collect and fail to account for the postage due upon any article of mail matter which he may deliver, without having previously affixed and cancelled the special Postage Due stamp, shall be deemed guilty of a breach of duty, and be liable to a pen il tv not exceeding One hundred pounds, in accordance with section 16 of The Post Office Act 1883. 

10.        At Post Offices where delivery of letters, &c., is not effected by letter carrier, Postage Due stamps are not w be affixed until delivery has been requested; and they are not to be affixed to matter forwarded by request of addressees, returned to writer, or sent to the Dead Letter Office.. 

11.        At Post Offices where there is delivery by letter carrier, Postage Due stamps are to be affixed on all taxed correspondence as soon as received, unless an order has been received for re-direction, in which case it should be forwarded without affixing the stamps. 

12.        If matter should arrive at a Post Office with postage due thereon, and the Postmaster has no Postage Due stamps on hand, he will collect the amount due, and as soon as lie shall obtain Postage Due stamps, affix the amount in such stamp to a sheet of paper, cancel, and forward the same to the Accountant with a statement of the facts. 

13.        When Postage Due stamps have been affixed to refused, unclaimed, or other undelivered matter, credit must be obtained therefor, by means of a claim on the Accountant through the Dead Letter Office, for Postage Due stamps on undelivered mail matter. The amount to be refunded to the Postmaster will then be settled by the Accountant. 

14.        When Postage Due stamps have been affixed to correspondence subsequently re-delivered, a claim stating amount due and name of person from whom it is to be collected must be attached to and sent with the letter. The Postmaster receiving the same must detach the claim and return it by next mail, with amount of uncancelled Postage Due stamps enclosed, to the Postmaster making the claim who, in case of failure to get a return of the stamps, must report the circumstance to the Accountant. 

15.        When a Postmaster at an office where delivery by letter carrier does not exist receives matter to which Postage Due stamps have been affixed, and which proves undeliverable, he should send the same to the Dead Letter Office with special claim for credit for Postage Due stamps refunded by him attached thereto.General Post Office,Melbourne 

By Authority: Robt. S. Brown. Government Priner Melbourne.