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POSTAL DIRECTORY— RATES.
]N o letter for any colony or foreign country may
be above 2 feet in length, or 1 foot in width or
depth.
Letters not specially directed by a particular
route are forwarded by the route immediately
following the name of the place in the Table of
Colonial and Foreign Postage :
Exceptions. — 1. Letters for Aden and India are
sent via Southampton, if that route be indi-
cated by the postage; letters for Borneo,
Ceylon, China, Japan, Java, Labuan, Philip-
pine Islands, and Singapore, are sent by first
packet, whether British or French, according
to the route indicated by the postage.
2. Letters for Egypt and Cape de Verds are sent
in the first mail despatched. Those for
Gibraltar, posted or received in London on
Thursday morning in time for the mail
via Southampton, are forwarded by that
route.
3. Letters for Canada posted after the despatch
of the mail by Canadian packet on Thursday,
are forwarded via the United States on
Saturday.
4. Letters for Bermuda are sent by the first
mail.
6. Letters for the Argentine Eepublic and
Uruguay are sent in the first mail despatched
by British or French packet after the time
of posting ; those for Brazil, Hayti, and the
United States of Colombia, and Venezuela
are sent by tiie first packet via Southampton
or Liverpool. Those for Mexico by the first
packet, via Southampton, Liverpool, or
France.
Letters, etc., for Brazil, Monte Video, Peru,Bolivia,
and Chili, if specially directed 'by Supplementary
Mail via Bordeaux' and posted in time for despatclj
from London by the day mail of Friday, will in due
course overtake, at Bordeaux, the packet despatched
from Liverpool on the previous Wednesday. The
postage via Bordeaux is the same as via Liverpool.
Letters for places on the Persian Gulf are for-
warded via Bombay, if specially directed by that
route and prepaid the Indian rate of postage.
Letters for Russia should have the name of the
town added in either English, French, or German;
and they should bear as a part of their address the
name of the province or government in which they
are situated. In addressing all letters, etc., for
Eussia, the name of the place of destination and
government must be correctly given, and the
address plainly written. If these conditions are
not comphed with, tho Eussian Post Office declines
to undertake delivery.
No letters containing gold or silver money,
jewels, or precious articles, or anything liable to
customs duties, can be sent, even if registered, to
any country of the Postal Union.
letters, books, etc., the transmission or delivery of
the letters would be delayed if the whole mail were
dealt with without distinction, post cards may
be kept back until the next despatch or delivery.
No card other than one of those issued by the
Government, or a private card impressed with the
halfpenny stamp, will pass under a halfpenny
stamp, if it bear on it a written communication of
the nature of a letter.
Post cards are sold at the rate of 7d. and 8d. per
dozen.
For information as to the conditions under which
private cards are impressed with a halfpenny stamp,
application must be made to the office of Inland
Revenue.
FOREIGN POST CARDS.
Foreign post cards. Id. and l^d. each, may be
sent to most of the countries in the Postal Union.
INLAND CARD POST.
Ofilcial post cards, impressed or private post
cards, embossed with a halfpenny stamp, are
available for transmission between places in the
United Kingdom.
The front (or stamped) side is intended for the
address only. There must be nothing else written,
printed, or otherwise impressed on it, nor must
there be any writing or printing across the stamp
On the reverse side, any communication, whether
of the nature of a letter or otherwise, may be
written or printed. Nothing whatever may be
attached; nor may the card be folded, cut, or
otherwise altered. If any of these rules be in-
fringed, tho card will be charged Id. on delivei-y.
When, owing to a great and unusual influx" of'
INLAND NEWSPAPERS.
Under the Post Office Act, 1870, any publication
fulfilling the conditions hereafter named can, upon
payment of an annual fee of 5s., be registered at
the General Post Office to pass within the United
Kingdom as a newspaper for a postage of one half-
penny. Without such registration, no newspaper
is entitled to be sent through the post at less than
the book rate of postage.
Registration for inland circulation includes regis-
tration for transmission abroad.
The conditions are as follows : —
The publication must consist wholly or in great
part of political or other news, or of articles relat-
ing thereto, or to other current topics, with or
without advertisements.
It must be printed and published in the United
Kingdom, must be published in numbers at inter-
vals of not more than seven days, and must be
printed on a sheet or sheets unstitched.
The full title and date of publication must be
printed at the top of the first page, and the whole or
part of the title and the date of publication at the
top of every subsequent page; and this regulation
applies to ' Tables of Contents ' and ' Indices.'
A supplement must consist wholly or in great
part of matter like that of a newspaper, or of adver-
tisements, printed on a sheet or sheets, or on a
piece or pieces of paper, unstitched ; or wholly or
in part of engravings, prints, or lithographs illus-
trative of articles in the newspaper. The supple-
ment must in every case be published with the
newspaper, and must have the title and date of
publication of the newspaper printed at the top of
every page ; or, if it consist of engravings, prints,
or lithographs, at the top of every sheet or side.
For each inland newspaper, whether posted singly
or in a packet, the postage, when prepaid, is one iialf-
peuny ; but a packet containing two or more regis-
tered newspapers is not chargeable with a higher
rate of postage than would be chargeable on a book
packet of the same weight — viz. one halfpenny for
every 2 oz. or part of 2 oz.
A newspaper posted unpaid, and a packet of
newspapers posted either unpaid or insufficiently
paid, will be treated as an unpaid or insufficiently
paid book packet of the same weight.
The postage must be prepaid either by an ad-
hesive stamp or by the use of a stamped wrapper.
No newspaper can be sent through the post a
second time for the original postage ; for each
transmission a fresh postage is required.
Eveiy 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. A news-
paper must not be fastened in its cover by means
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