PA Exam Materials – 164 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
• A registered packet bag contains heavy registered packets and registered list. Registered packet bags are prescribed when justified.
• Bag returned empty to UBO/DBO/CBO/PO or sacks containing such bags are treated as packets bag
• A orders are orders issued by a Superintendent RMS prescribing changes in sorting list. B orders are orders issued by Superintendent, RMS for the guidance of his subordinates in the performance of their duties in Mail office on all subjects except alterations in sorting list.
• Late letters are letters presented at the window of a post office or Mail office or posted in the letter box of a mail office after the prescribed hour of closing the mail but within the interval allowed for posting of such letters with the prescribed late fee affixed in addition to the postage.
• Too late letters are those posted within such interval but without having been fully prepaid with postage and late fee. These are stamped “Detained late fee not paid' and detained till the next despatch.
• A mis-sent article is an article which has been erroneously forwarded by an office to an office other than the office of destination or by a route other than the prescribed one.
• A mis-directed article is a vernacular article on which the incorrect destination has been written in English by the office of posting.
• Trial cards are service Post cards (M26(a)) which are employed for the purpose of determining the relative advantage of alternative mail routes or the cause of detention to articles.
• The bulk of the correspondence of any office or section is more than that what a single mail bag can contain, two or more mail bags are closed and advised in the due mail list. Such mail bags are called plural mail bags, (R-74 vol v)
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