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POSTAGE DIRECTORY— RATES.
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SOLDIKItS.
From A. B., Scrg(!ant, ntc, lif^gt.
{Here the direclion oj'thn letter to he inserted.')
C. D; Colonel (or other Comimiii<lii(ij Officer"),
To .1. J5.,
Private (or Sergeant, Corporal, etc.) liegt.
{IlerK the, dlreclluH to be Jinished.)
If the letter be posted in the United Kingdom for
a place abroad, unpaid or insufHcicntly paid, it will
(if not exeoeding half au ounci: in weight) be de-
tained and returned to the writer for payment of the
postage; but if it exceed lialf an ounce, or if any
other uf the foregoing regulations be not complied
I with, it will be forward<-'d charged the same postage
'as a letter addressed to a coniniissioned officer.
j OTFICERS' LETTERS.
Letters addressed to or sent by a conmiiissioned
officer (in the Navy or the lioyal Marines), or a
warrant officer, when employed on board any of her
Majesty's ships, or when teiiifjorarily n.-uioved fl-om
Isucli ships for Jaud servici; on a i;<jlonial or foreign
[station, are subject to a uniform British rate of Gd.
'per half-ounce each ; but if any such letters have to
pass thr jugh njoreif/n country, they are subject to a
t'oreUjn irngtcKje, in addition to the iJrilish rate of 6d.
'J'hus the postage to the under-mentioned countries
(including tlio Lritish chai-ge of Cd.) is as follows:
Not
exceeding
ioz.
Above i oz.
Above i oz.
Above 1 oz.
Above 1 oz.
but not
but not
but not
but not 1
exceeding
exceeding
exceeding
exceeding i
ioz.
I oz.
1 oz.
li oz. ;
A
B
C
D
E
S. il.
S. (l
S. (I.
s. d.
I. d.
Tool
from Ceylon, Mauritius, India, or
Australia, via Marseilles
10
10
1 8
1 8
3 4
•\
„
China or Japan, via Marseilles
10
10
1 8
1 8
2 a
1
.J
Malta, via Marseilles
6
1
1 a
2
2 C
„
Chili, Peru, or any other place
1
.S
in the South Pacific .
7
7
1 2
1 2
1 9 1
^,
Vancouver's Island, British
j
1
Columbia, or any other place
1
=5"
in the North Pacific, via New
S
York; the conveyance be-
.-g
tween New York and Eng-
^
land being by British Packet
9
9
• 1 6
1 6
2 3 I
'?
,,
Do. do., by American Packet .
1
1 .
2
2
3
c3
51
Do. do., via St Thomas and
1
.3
Panama ....
1
1
2
2
3 !
O
51
Canada, via United States
8
8
1 4
1 4
2
f^
»
Brazil, by French Packet
8
1 4
2
2 8
3 4
Unpaid letters sent to or by an officer on board a ship on a colonial station are charged 6d. each on
deliveiy, in addition to the foregoing rates.
Letters for officers and seamen on board her Ma-
jesty's ships stationed at a foreign port should not
be addressed to the care of the British Consul at
that port, or to any agent on shore, as the privilege
enjoyed by officers and seamen, of receiving their
letters through the post at reduced rates of postage,
is confined to such letters as ai-e addressed directly
to them. All letters directed to the care of anj' other
jiorson are liable to the ordinary rate of postage ;
and in those cases where prepayment is necessary,
they will be detained if such ordinary rate be not
prepaid.
LETTERS WEIGHING MOKE THAN ONE
OUNCE.
The postage of a letter above the weight of an
ounce increases as follows :
When the amount in column E of the Talile of Co-
lonial and Foreign Postage is found to be
three times as much as in column A, as in the
case of the Cape of Good Hope, the amount in
column A is to be reckoned per half-ounce.
, When the amount in column E is found "to 'bejmir
times as much as in column A, as in the case
of India, the amount in column C, after the
first ounce, is to be reckoned per ounce.
When the amouut in column E is found to he five
times as much as in coluuni A, as in the case
of France, the amount in column A is to be
reckoned throughout per quarter of an mtnce.
In all other cases, sixpence of the sum found in
column A is to be reckoned throughout per
quarter of an ounce, and the remainder, in
addition, for every half-ounce.
ROUTES.
Except in the under-mentioned case;?, letters not
specially directed by a particular route are for-
warded by the route immediately following the
name of the place in the Table of Colonial and
Foreign Postage :
Ey.ceptions. — I. Letters for Aden, -Alexandria,
Borneo, Cairo, Cape of Good Hope. Ceylon,
China, India, Japan, Java, Labuan, Madagas-
car, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, New Zealand,
Penang, Philippine Islands, Eeiinion, Singa-
pore, and Suez, are sent bj- the fii-st mail
despatched, if the prepayment does not indi-
cate that thej' are to be sent by another
route.
II. Letters for Canada are sent by the first
British or Canadian mail packet despatched.
III. Letters for the Argentine Confederation,
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Cape de Verds, Cuba,
Guadaloupe, Martinique, Mexico, and Monte
Video, are, provided the prepa.%nneut be suf-
ficient, sent in the mail via France, if that
be the first mail despatched after the time of
posting.