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POSTAL DIRECTORY— RATES.
contains any enclosure except the supplement or
supplements belonging to it, is charged as a letter,
unless the enclosure bo such as might be sent at the
book rate of postage, and the entire packet be suf-
ficiently prepaid as a book packet, in which case
it is allowed to pass.
A newspaper which has any letter, or any com-
munication of the nature of a letter, written in it
or upon its cover, will be charged as an unpaid or
insufficiently paid letter.
No packet of newspapers must exceed 14 lbs.
in weight, nor may it exceed 2 feet in length or 1
foot in width or depth.
COLONIAL AND FOREiaN NEWSPAPERS.
The rates of postage to the colonies and foreign
countries on newspapei's registered for transmission
abroad will be found in the Table of Colonial and
Foreign Postage.
The conditions of registration for transmission
abroad are the same as those for inland transmis-
.sion; excepting that for foreign transmission a
newspaper may be published at intervals of thirty-
one days. Moreover, 'prices current' and ' market
reports,' but not private price-lists or trade cata-
logues, are admitted to the same privileges as
newspapers for foreign transmission, provided they
are published at intervals not exceeding thu-ty-one
days.
Publications registered for transmission abroad
must be posted within eight days from the date of
publication, including that date; but if posted
later, must be prepaid the book rate of postage.
The collected numbers issued during the month
of a weekly or fortnightly publication are not
allowed to pass as a monthly publication.
Every newspaper or packet of newspapers must
be posted either without a cover or in a cover
entirely open at both ends, and in such a manner
as to admit of easy removal for examination, and
every newspaper must be so folded as to admit of
the title being readily seen.
No newspaper, whether posted singly or in a
packet, may contain any enclosure except the sup-
plement or supplements belonging to it.
There must be no writing or other mark on a
newspaper sent abroad but the name and address
of the person to whom it is sent; nor anything
on the cover but such name and address, the
printed title of the publication, the printed name
and address of the publisher or vendor who sends
it, and words indicating the date on which the
subscription to the newspaper will end.
No packet of newspapers must exceed 2 feet
in length or 1 foot in width or depth. For limit of
weight, see Table of Colonial and Foreign Rates.
INLAND BOOK POST.
The postage is one halfpenny for every two
ounces or part of that weight.
A packet posted wholly unpaid will be charged
with double the book postage ; and if posted par-
tially prepaid, with double the deficiency.
A book packet may contain any number of
separate books or other publications, photographs
(when not on glass or in cases containing glass or any
like substance), drawings, prints, or maps, and any
quantity of paper, or any other substance in ordi-
nary use for writing or printing upon; and the
books or other publications, prints, maps, etc., may
be either printed, written, engraved, lithographed,
or plain, or any mixture of these. Further, all
legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a
book, etc., or of a portion thei-eof, is allowed,
whether such binding, etc., be loose or attaclied ;
as also rollers in the case of prints or maps, markei's
(whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books,
pens or pencils in the case of pocket-books, etc.,
and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe
transmi.'ision of such articles, or usually appertains
thereto ; but the binding, rollers, etc., must not be
sent as a separate packet.
Circulars, i.e. letters which, from internal evi-
dence, appear to be intended for transmission in
identical terms to several persons, and the whole
or the greater part of which is produced by ordi-
nary type, engraving, or lithography, or any other
mechanical process, may also be sent by book post.
Every book packet must be posted cither with-
out a cover or in a cover entirely open at botli
ends, and in such a manner as to admit of the
contents being easily withdrawn for-examinatioii ;
otherwise it will be treated as a letter.
A book packet may not contain any letter, or
communication of the nature of a letter (whether
separate or otherwise), unless it be a circular letter,
nor any enclosure sealed or in any way closed
against inspection, nor an}' other enclosure not
allowed. (Entries, however, merely stating who
sends the book, etc., or to whom it is given,
are not regarded as a letter.) If this rule b(;
infringed, the entire packet will be charged as a
letter.
No book packet may exceed 5 lbs. in weight,
or 18 inches in length, 9 inches in width, and i:
inches in depth, unless to or from one of the Go-
vernment Offices.
When, owing to a great and unusual influx of
letters, books, etc., the transmission or delivery of
the letters would bo delayed if the whole mail were
dealt with without distinction, book packets may
be kept back till the next despatch or deliver}'.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN BOOK POST.
Articles which may be sent to places abroad
under the Book Post Regulations consist of two
classes, as follows: — •
(o) Commercial Papers, under which are com-
prised all papers or documents written or drawn
wholly or partly by hand (except letters or com-
munications in the nature of letters, or other papers
or documents having the character of an actual
and personal correspondence), documents of Legal
procedure, Deeds drawn up by public function-
aries, copies of or extracts from Deeds imder
private seal (and whether written or printed oa
stamped or unstamped paper). Way Bills, Bills
of Lading, Invoices, and other documents of
a mercantile character, documents of Insurance
and other public Companies, all kinds of manu-
script Music, the manuscript of Books and other
literarj' works, and other papers of a similar
description.
(6) Printed Papers, including periodical woi-ks,
books(stitchedor bound), pamphlets, shectsof music
(printed), visiting cards, address cards, proofs of
printing (with or without the manuscript relating
thereto), engravings, photographs (when not on
glass or in frames containing glass), drawings,
plans, maps, catalogues, prospectuses, announce-
ments, and notices of various kinds, whether
printed, engraved, or lithographed, and in general
all impressions or copies obtained upon paper,
parchment, or card-board by means of printing,
lithographing, or any other mechanical process
easy to recognise, except the copying press, and
anything usually attached or appurtenant to any
of the before-mentioned articles in the way of bind-
ing, mounting, or otherwise, and anything con-
venient for their safe transmission by post which