Indian Expeditionary Force 'D', General Routine Orders (incomplete) [‎84r] (180/774)

Annex are to Force Routine Order No
f 5 f2 ' rffAed September ijth, igi()
I.E.F. “ D.”
<? mh in respect fo the treatment of Postal Correspondence by Units.
1.
Credentials of Post Orderlies.
a written authority signed by^thVr O^odht^ Caref ^ 11 / selec u Led N.C.O.’s, must be furnished with
^ Knea dj the C.O. to obtain mails from the Base or Field Post Offices.
2. —Delivery. *
or FieliTPost* Offices? In tS T by the B -
should be signed before th“orderlv^ 't'™ .» f “f " Parcel *»*’ the P lists
signed for by the orderly the P ist nm . , GI check at the office. Once articles have been
returned. eHy ’ the 1 ost O01CG Wl11 have n0 farther responsibility until they are
3. Addresses of Absentees.
or known'to th^ern W fnr*the P a recor< l G t the address of all absent officers and men communicated
nown to them, toi the purpose of having their letters redirected.
4. —Undeliverable Correspondence.
Letters, packets and parcels
addressee will :—
1. —If the absentee’s address is known be clearly re-addressed accordingly.
2. —If the absentee’s address is not known be endorsed “ address not known.”
3-—-If the addressee is in hospital, but the name of the hospital is not known, be
clearly endorsed with the word “ Hospital ” in the top left-hand corner of the address.
4. —If the addressee is deceased or missing, be endorsed “ Deceased” or “ Missing”
as the case may be, in the top left-hand corner of the address, the endorsement being signed
by an officer, giving hix rank.
5. — If the addressee is not known to belong to the Unit to which the letter, etc., is
addressed be endorsed ‘'Unknown, with ”
All redirections and endorsements must be initialled and dated, and all earlier endorsements
or redirections must be struck out.
All undeliverable correspondence should be redirected, or endorsed as described above, and
handed back without delay to the F.P.O. of the formation.
F.P.O.’s have orders not to accept returned correspondence which is not so endorsed.
which cannot be delivered owing to the absence of the
5.
Registered Correspondence.
1 .—The Post Orderly will enter in a book kept for the purpose the names of the
officers and men for whom he has received registered letters, registered parcels and V.P.
intimations or parcels and have the office stamp impressed on the date on which he received
them at the top of the page. He will obtain the signature of the persons to whom he
delivers such articles as a receipt. He will be assisted in writing up this book by a
reference to the lists mentioned in 2 above.
2 Any of the above which cannot be delivered will be endorsed as in paragraph 4
above and handed back without delay to the F.P.O. and the signature of the sub-postmaster
taken in his book, with an impression of the date stamp.
3 The entries and signatures in the Post Orderly’s Book will be periodically
y examined by an officer, and some of the items verified.
6.
Outward Correspondence.
Officers Commanffins units will arrange for the safe custody of all correspondence handed
m to be posted. Such correspondence must comply with all Censorsh.p regulations, it
must either :—
] Be certified as official by an officer ; or
2 . _Be contained in the special green or red envelopes which are not liable to
regimental censorship ; or t
3. —Be initialled by an officer and stamped ‘ Censored ? or
4 . If an officer’s letter bear on the cover his name and rank. (Correspondence from
units sho^d beVanded b, daily to F.P.O.’s by Post Orderlies.
7 ' _E The'B^e , Tnd Field Post Offices will maintain a register of all bags taken by units and
returned, signature to be exchanged in ear > eas, ^ with „„ t delay.
Empty bags must be sent to the Base and rieiu
3rd S. d- M. Field Press.