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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL POSTAGE.
COLLECTIONS FROM KECEIVING-OFFICES AND PILLAR LETTER-EOXES.
9.45 A.M.; 2, 4.30, 6.20, 8.0, 9.45 p.m.
On Sundays and Fast-Days, One Collection only is made, viz., at 6.20 p.m.
At 9.45 P.M. the Collection is made from the Pillar Letter-Boxes only ; and on Sundays and Fast-Days
no Letters can be posted at the Receiving Offices.
MONEY-ORDER AND POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANK OFFICE.
Head Office, George Square, Open from 9 a.m. till 5 P.jr.; on Saturday, from 9 a.m. till I p.m.
See also Receiving-Offices.
Telegraph Office Open (in George Square), from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Hanover Street entrance
from 9 p.m. to 9 A.m.
EXPLAITATIONS RELATIVE TO THE FOLLOWING TABLE OF COLONIAL
AND FOREIGN POSTAGE.
ABBREVIATIONS.
Alt Alternate.
Ea Each.
Fri Friday.
M 9.20 a.in.
A 5.15 p.m.
E 8.15 p.m.
Ev Every.
A&E 5.15 and 8.15 p.m.
Mo Month.
Pkt Packet.
Pr e V Previous.
Fol Following.
Sat. ex Saturday excepted.
Tu Tuesday.
Mon Monday.
OPTIONAL OR COMPULSORY PREPAYMENT.
When a letter addressed to go by a route that requires prepayment is posted unpaid, and there is some
other route where prepayment is not required, it is forwarded by that route ; but if there be none, it is sent
to the Returned Letter Office, to be sent back to the writer.
DISTANCE TO WHICH THE POSTAGE CARRIES THE LETTER, &c.
The letter a prefixed to any rate of postage shows that the postage there entered does not carry the letter
from the place where it is posted in the United Kingdom entirely free to its place of destination, but that it
is liable to an additional charge upon delivery.
TURKEY.
Letters for such places mTurlcey and Asia Minor as have no Austrian Post Office, should be addressed to
the care of an agent residing in the nearest port at which an Austrian Post Office has been established. For
Austrian Post Offices in Turkey, see British Postal Guide.
It is recommended that any letters for Erzeroum and other parts of the interior of Armenia, or for Persia,
be addressed to the care of some agent in Samsoun or Trebizond, to be forwarded to their destination.
The laws of Spain forbid the transmission by the post within that country of letters or other packets con-
taining coin or watches, jewelry, or other articles of value which are liable to customs duties ; and the
circulation of coin, jewelry, and other articles of value in letters is also prohibited in Belgium and Italy.
Any such packets, therefore, which may be forwarded in the mails to Spain or Belgium will not be delivered, but
will be sent back. A similar prohibition, on /)owi of forfeiture, is placed upon the transmission of diamonds
and other jewels to the TurMsh Empire, and of money and jewelry to the republic of Costa Rica.
EXCEPTIONS REFERRED TO IN HEAD OF TABLE ON SUCCEEDING PAGE.
I. Letters for Aden, Alexandria, Cairo, India, and Suez are sent by the first mail despatched by British
Packet either via Brindisi or via Southampton, according to the route indicated by the postage.
II. Letters for Borneo, Ceylon, China, Japan, Java, Labuan, Penang, Philippine Islands, and Singapore are
sent by the first packet, whether British or French, according to the route indicated by the postage;
and letters for Malta are sent by the first mail despatched, via Italy or via Southampton, if the prepay-
ment does not indicate that they are to be sent by another route.
III. Letters for Canada (if not registered) posted after the despatch of the mail by Canadian Packet on
Thursday are forwarded via the United States on Saturday. Registered Letters, if not fully prepaid
to be sent via the United States, are detained for despatch by the next Canadian Packet.
IV. Letters for the Argentine Confederation, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Guadaloupe, Martinique, and letters for
Monte Video, .Cuba, and Mexico, if prepaid, are sent in the mail via France, if that be the first mail
despatched after the time of posting.
V. Letters for Baden and Bavaria, if insufficiently paid for transmission via France, but sufficiently paid
to be sent via Belgium, are forwarded by the latter route.
VI. Letters for Switzerland are forwarded via France when that route is indicated by the amount of
prepaid postage.