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dispatch comes to you from a junior always insist the junior has attested "it is okay". If you in turn wish to send it on, you too must attest "it is okay" and send it on. If it is not OK return the dispatch to the originator stating briefly why it is not OK. The receiver handles the dispatch and retains the dispatch until such time as it has been completely handled. If it is a matter which involves days or weeks, you can dispatch the sender stating that such and such is being attended to and expected to be complete within a certain time-but retain the original dispatch until job is done, then return it to sender marked "DONE". Do not return the original with "It's being attended to". Originals only return with "DONE" or "Can't be done". Otherwise the communication stays incomplete. When replying to a dispatch, put down the date of the message. Dispatches are handwritten. Executives, other than Exec Secs, should not have their dispatches typed by a secretary except where the dispatch contains large volume. COLOUR FLASH SYSTEM FOR DISPATCHES AND LETTERS The colour flashes for paper for divisions are as follows: HCO Division 1 - Gold HCO Division 2 - Light pink or violet Division 3 - Deep Pink Division 4 - Green Division 5 - Grey Division 6 - Yellow Division 7 - Brown [Public Division Flash Colours Division 8 - Orange added per HCO PL 23 May 1969.] Division 9 - Blue or White White paper is also used for letters to the field, business houses, Board minutes, and for manuscripts and research notes. Copies of letters written are on the colour flash of the division writing the letter. WRITTEN REQUESTS If you have a request, put it in writing. Do not go to the person and expect him to carry your request around in his head. Personnel are not supposed to present their body, nor their body with a dispatch to other personnel except for actual conferences which are kept to a minimum. Few things need conferences. Dispatches take care of 99% of organizational business. COMM CENTRE BASKETS The Comm Centre contains a basket for each staff member. Each basket is tagged with the person's name and underneath the name is their post or posts. Each person is responsible for delivering his own dispatches to the proper baskets and for picking up daily his own dispatches. Do not fail to pick up your dispatches at least twice a day (once in the morning and once in the afternoon-make your own schedule). But do not let dispatches pile up in your basket. In larger orgs a Comm Centre and separate Divisional Comm Centres may be instituted. The Comm Centre would consist of one basket for each division plus a basket for L. Ron Hubbard and an outer org OUT basket. Each divisional comm centre is placed in the divisional working area with a basket for each staff member in that division plus a divisional in-basket and a divisional out-basket. An HCO dispatch courier would be responsible for delivering dispatches into the divisional in-baskets and from the divisional out-baskets into the comm centre baskets. The sec sec is responsible for the distribution of dispatches from the divisional in-basket to staff members' baskets.