Half-yearly enumeration returns

the account office concerned where the address will be transcribed into English, just as on articles posted in letter-boxes attached to it.

64. Check slip. – (1) A check slip is a label tied to the top of each labelled bundle : the form is printed on paper of different colours, pink for ordinary paid and unpaid bundles, white for ordinary sorting bundles, and blue with the words “Air Mail” for foreign air mail bundles. The white check-slip is used for both express and deferred bundles, the slip being marked on the face with 2 diagonal lines in blue pencil when it is used for an express bundle. Every check-slip bear the name and date stamps of the office or section which prepares the bundle, the name of the office or section to which it is addressed and signature in full of the office by whom it is made up. In case of a territorial bundle, it also shows the name of the state, territory, etc., to which the articles in the bundles are addressed, as well as the office or section by which it is to be opened, thus :-

KASHMIR

(D 2 OUT)

(2) Check slips are designed to fix responsibility for the missending of any article included in a labelled bundle and they should be disposed of as follows by the office which opens the bundles :-

(a) when a labelled bundle contains no missent articles the check-slip received with it should forthwith be destroyed.

(b) When a labelled bundle is found to contain any missent articles, particulars of such articles, i.e., the number of missent articles for each post-town of destination with the name of that post-town should be clearly entered on the reverse of the check-slip, signed by the branch postmaster, impressed with the date-stamp and forwarded by the first mail in a service envelope addressed to the supervising officer of the despatching office or section.

65. Labelled bundles. – (1) A labelled bundle is a collection of faced unregistered articles of the letter mail, securely tied with a checkslip (M-10) at the top. It is treated in sorting as a single article, and is opened by the office or section to which it is addressed.

(2) Labelled bundles are of two classes, viz., station bundles and sorting bundles:-

(i) A station bundle contains unregistered station articles, and may be either a paid bundle consisting of only paid articles or an unpaid bundle consisting of only unpaid articles. Station bundles are prepared ordinarily when the number of articles – either paid or unpaid for any office exceeds fifteen.