Delivery - regulations

Australia: 1917-1988.
Regulations for delivery of telegrams.

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The following extracts have been scanned from the Post and Telegraph Guide No. 19 of June 1922.

Regulations 350-354 address the context of delivering telegrams:

Essentially the cost was 3d for deliveries beyond 3½ miles from a General Post Office and 1½ miles from a local Post Office - with several caveats.

The 1952 Regulations were very similar except that:

the distance for free delivery from a Chief Telegraph Office was reduced to 3 miles;

a radius of 2 miles was esablished for free delivery from any office "where, in the opinion of the Postmaster-General, the circumstances warrant a free delivery";

porterage charges were increased - from 3d per quarter mile to 6d per quarter mile beyond the free delivery area.

Other paragraphs such as 237 and 239 above remained.

2. Delivery docket regulations.

Paragraph 355 (2) refers to the Delivery Advice dockets outlined in AB-AD-4.