POSTING MONEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 5

POSTING MONEY.

NEED FOR REGISTRATION. • From, the Chief Postmaster wo have received a copy of the following special notice, which is.being circulated widely in the public interest with respect to the sending of money and valuable articles in unregistered letters-.—"Tho Post Office, by means of a conspicuous notice placed over every posting-box in tho 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 will hardly be credited by people who exercise ordinary prudence in such matters that it is a common thing tho Post-°ffioo letters crammed full with" bank-notes, very often in tho flimsiest of covers. Frequently the contents protrude from the envelopes, or are found loos') in the mailbags, having burst their envelopes, and as frequently letters filled with notes are carelesslv thrown loose into railway-vans for tho guard I to deliver with the mails. Many other cases could be instanced of carelessness on the part of ( the public in sending inouov by post. "It often happens that letters containing ara a ". e S. e d to havo been lost in .tho post-office, and it has generally been proved that such letters were eather not posted or wero 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 cast on everyone concorned, viz., on the person supposed to have posted the letter, the officers of tho post-office through whoso hands tho letter would pass, and tho person who would in ordinary course receive the letter from tho post-offico, either from a street-door letter-box or a private letterbox, over the post-offico counter, or from tho hands of a letter-carrier.

"No record is kept of unregistered letters, and persons who post such letters containing money expose to. temptation everyone through whose hands they may pass, and in tho event of nondelivery 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 be registered at every post-office in tho Dominion, and tho fee for such registration is only twopence. Receipts are given for registered letters. Tho letters are traced from hand to hand, and a receipt obtained 011 delivery therefore it is very rare that a registered letter is lost."