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POSTAGE DIRECTORY — RATES, 475
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, EDINBURGH.
Postmaster-Geneii,\.l foe the United Kingdom,
RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY.
I-RATES OF POSTAGE,
and Conditions of Transmission.
Inland Letters.
The rate of postage on all inland letters is regulated by weight, irrespective of distance ; and is
as follows : —
If paid in advance.
Letter weighing not more than half-an-ounce Id.
„ „ more than half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce 2d.
„ „ more than one ounce but not exceeding one and a half 3d.
„ „ more than one and a half ounces but not exceeding two 4d.
„ „ more than two ounces but not exceeding two and a half 5d.
„ „ more than two and a half ounces but not exceeding three 6d.
Unpaid Letters.
As a general rule, the postage, if not paid in advance, is double the foregoing ; and if the pay
ment in advance be insufficient, double the deficiency must be charged. An inland letter, for
example, weighing more than half an ounce, and not exceeding one ounce, if bearing a penny
stamp only, must, on delivery, be charged twopence. The unpaid additional postage on re-directed
letters, however, is not doubled, being the same as if such postage were prepaid.
Colonial and Foreign Letters.
The rates of postage on letters to foreign countries and the colonies are entered in the Table of
Foreign and Colonial Postage (see the British Postal Guide). In consequence of the frequent
alterations which take place in the Foreign and Colonial rates of postage during the course of a
year, and the numerous disappointments, complaints, and inconveniences arising from that cause,
it is deemed advisible to withdraw the Table of Foreign and Colonial rates of postage.
Addresses to the Queen and Petitions to
Parliament.
Petitions and Addresses to Her Majesty, forwarded direct, are exempt from postage; and such
petitions and addresses, as also petitions to either House of Parliament, if sent to a member of
either House, are likewise exempt, provided they do not weigh more than two pounds, and are
without covers, or in covers open at the sides. No letter or other enclosure, however, must be
inserted ; and if one be found, such enclosure, unless it bear the proper number of postage stamps,
is charged as an unpaid letter.
Newspapers and other periodical Publications
bearing the Newspaper Stamp.
All periodical publications, including newspapers published in the United Kingdom, at intervals
not exceeding thirty-one days, and which bear an impressed stamp or stamps denoting the stamp