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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 JULY 1966
Remimeo
All Staff
DESPATCHES, SPEED UP
DESPATCHES, STALE DATE
INTERNAL DESPATCHES
Any staff member receiving an internal org despatch that has been
enroute more than three days (dated the fourth day earlier than date of
receipt) must report the matter to the Director of Communications who must
thereupon request the Director of Inspection and Reports to investigate and
report to Dir Comm and order any resulting Ethics action.
If an internal despatch is received back by the originator more than six
days after origin the same procedure must be followed.
If an answer to a despatch is not received back by the originator in a
period of six days the same procedure is followed.
These time lags of 3 days and six days are to be considered extreme.
If damage results or expense occurs because an urgent message was not
marked RUSH or if a RUSH message did not promptly arrive, the same
procedure is followed.
EXTERNAL DESPATCHES
Any external despatch received with a date of 3 days earlier plus
ordinary transmission time must be so reported to Dir Comm and the
procedure is the same as Internal Despatches.
If a despatch is not answered in six days plus double transmission time,
the same procedure is followed.
On Rush Despatches, any despatch older than 1 day is considered stale
dated where telegraph or telex exists.
STALE DATE
The term "Stale Date" (used previously by banks on cheques) means any
despatch or answer that is older than one should reasonably expect when one
receives it or any answer that is older in date from origin to answer or
answer to receipt than one should reasonably expect.
VIAS
These regulations apply to all despatches and include all vias.
EXTRAORDINARY LOCATIONS
Locations which are not served by airmail, telex or telegraph are
considered extraordinary locations and stale date occurs only when
reasonable expectancy is exceeded.
TIME MACHINE
All orders or queries may go on Time Machine.
A junior may place queries or info on a Time Machine to a senior and may
complain to Dir Comm re stale date.
A junior Org may place queries or info going to a senior Org on a Time
Machine and may complain to Dir Comm re any stale date.
COPYING DESPATCHES
Anyone sending a stale date complaint to the Dir Comm must first answer
or handle any despatch he is holding and send it to the Dir Comm with its
answer.
Dir Comm copies or xeroxes the original and the answer promptly and
sends the original on to its next recipient and uses the copy only for
investigation.
ALL ANSWERS DATED
Answer notes on despatches and answers must hereafter be dated by the
answerer. All despatches are of course dated by the originator.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:lb-r.rd
Copyright� 1966
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED