MONEY LETTERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2445, 9 March 1909, Page 4

MONEY LETTERS.

A REQUEST FOR REGISTRATION

The Post Office. by means of a conspicuous notice placed over every posting-box in the Dominion, cautions the public against sending money and valuable articles in unregistered letters. Notwithstanding this warning, money continues to be sent by. post in unregistered letters in the most careless manner. It is a common thing to find in the post office letters crammed full of bank notes, very often in the flimsiest of covers. Frequently the contents protrude from the envelopes, or arc found loose in the mail bags, having burst their envelopes, and as frequently letters filled with notes are carelessly thrown into railway vans for the guard to deliver with the mails. It often happens that letters containing money are alleged to have been lost in the post office, and it has generally been proved that such letters were either not posted or were mislaid or lost after duo delivery. "When an unregistered money-letter, alleged to have been sent by post, is reported missing it may happen that suspicion is east on every ono concerned. No record is kept of unregistered letters, and persons who post such letters containing money expose to temptation every one through whose hands they may pass, and in the event of non-delivery suspicion is cast on many innocent persons. The public are again earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post.. (Letters can bo registered at every post office in the Dominion, and tlio foe for such registration is only twopence. Receipts'are given for registered letters. Tho letters are traced from hand to hand, and a receipt obtained on deliycry; therefore it is very rare that a‘ registered letter is lost. •