Note 3. – No special measures should be taken to secure the return from station masters of letters addressed to their care which cannot be delivered by them to the actual addressees, and postmen should not be required, as a matter of duty, to call for such letters. Note 4. – All articles issued for delivery from deposit should again be stamped on the date of issue with the date stamp. 67. Postage taxed and credited by the branch office. – (1) The branch postmaster must see that the following classes of unregistered articles received for delivery are properly taxed with postage by him :(a) insufficiently paid articles that have been treated by the account office or despatching office as fully prepaid; (b) unpaid articles that are not impressed with the postage-due stamp and which the account office has omitted to invoice in the b.o. slip with which the articles were sent; and (c) articles that have not been charged by the despatching offices or account office with the full amount of postage due on them.
(2) The postage-due stamp should be impressed on articles comprised in classes (a) and (b) and on articles comprised in class (c) the amount shown by the impression of the postage-due stamp of the despatching of account office should be corrected under initials of the branch postmaster. He must also see that all unpaid and insufficiently paid unregistered articles posted in the branch office and intended for delivery from the office itself, are properly taxed by him with postage and impressed with the postage-due stamp. (3) The postage taxed each day under this rule should be credited in the branch office account under the head “Postage-taxed by the branch office”. Particulars of the articles taxed with postage should also be noted on the receipt side of the branch office journal. (4) An article received by the foreign post should not under any circumstances, be taxed with postage by the branch office. Note 1. – The office of posting is responsible for seeing that the correct postage is paid on a registered newspaper, and the postage paid on articles of this class should not, therefore, be challenged by the office of delivery. If, however, there should be reason to believe that any office of posting is not sufficiently careful in the discharge of this duty, an immediate report should be made by the office of delivery to the superintendent through the account office. Note. 2 – See Rule 62.
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