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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
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§ 12. No Newspaper, whether posted singly or in
a packet, may contain any enclosure except the
supplement or supplements belonging to it.
§ 13. 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 any thing 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.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
8. Parliamentary proceedings circulated inland.
— Postage. — Printed proceedings of the Imperial
Parliament, sent without covers, or in covers open at
the ends, may circulate within the United Kingdom
at the rate of one half-penny for every 2 oz. or frac-
tion of that weight.
The words " Parliamentary Proceedings " must be
written or printed on the cover of the packet, other-
wise it is treated as an ordinary book packet.
Prepayment optional — Prepayment, when the cir-
culation is within the United Kingdom, is optional ;
and if it be made in part, the simple difference only
is charged.
Parliamentary Proceedings, cf-c, sent abroad. —
Parliamentary proceedings may be sent, under the
Book Post privilege, to all the Colonies, and to those
Foreign States between which and this country there
is a book post.
Booh Post — (1) Inland.
9. A book packet may contain not only books,
paper, or other substance in ordinary use for writing
or printing, whether plain or written or printed upon
(to the exclusion of any written letter or communica-
tion of the nature of a letter), photographs when not
on glass or in frames containing glass or any like
substance, and anything usually appertaining to such
articles in the way of binding and mounting, or
necessary for their safe transmission by post, but
also circulars — i.e., letters which appear from internal
evidence to be intended for transmission in identical
terms to several persons — when these are wholly or
in great part printed, engraved, or lithographed.
§ 1. The postage is one half-penny for every 2 oz.
or fraction of that weight.*
§ 2. The postage must be prepaid either by ad-
hesive stamps, or by means of a stamped wrapper,
or by combination of the two.
§ 3. A packet posted wholly unpaid will be
charged with double the book postage, and if posted
partially prepaid, with double the deficiency.
§ 4. Every book packet must be posted either
without a cover, or in a cover open at both ends and
in such a manner as to admit of the contents being
* If the weight be exceeded to the smallest extent,
even though tlie balance be merely turned, the book or
printed paper becomes liable to a higher postage. To
provide therefore for errors in scales, &c., it is well to
allow a little margin, or to pay the postage of the next
greater weight. It should be remembered that a news-
paper when wet weighs more than when dry. For-
getfulness on this point sometimes causes groundless
complaints about chargesfor newspapers; the complainant
having erroneously supposed, on weighing the newspaper
on its arrival, and when it had had time to dry, that he
had been overcharged. The foregoing observations apply
also to books, &c., sent abroad.
easily withdrawn for examination; otherwise it will
be treated as a letter.
§ 5. A book packet may not contain any letter,
or communication of the nature of a letter (whether
separate or otherwise) not being a circular letter, or
not wholly printed, nor any enclosure sealed, or in
any way closed against inspection, nor any other
enclosure not allowed by Section 11. (Entries,
however, merely stating who sends the book, &c., or
to whom it is given, are not regarded as a letter.)
If this rule be infringed, the entire packet will be
charged as a letter.
§ 6. No book packet may exceed 5 lbs. in weight,
or 1 foot 6 inches in length, 9 inches in width, and
6 in depth.
§ 7. The main business of the Post OiSce being
the transmission of letters, the forwarding of book&
and newspapers, though an important, is only a
secondary object, for which no arrangement can be
made which would interfere with the quick and regu-
lar conveyance and delivery of letters. Books, there-
fore, which would be injured by being thrust into a
bag and hurriedly pressed down like a bundle of let-
ters, should not be sent through the Post.
§ 8. To prevent obstacles to the regular trans-
mission or delivery of letters, a head-postmastet
may, when necessary, keep back book packets until
the next despatch or delivery.
Colonial and Foreign.
For information respecting rates of postage and
regulations applying to book packets for places abroad,,
see the Tables of Colonial and Foreign Postage.
Colonial and Foreign Pattern and Sample Post.
10. There is a Pattern and Sample Post to such
colonies and foreign countries as are marked in tha
Table of Colonial and Foreign Postage with the
letter " P ; " but it is restricted to bona fide trade
patterns or samples of merchandise. Goods sent for
sale, or in execution of an order (however small the
quantity may be), or any articles sent by one private
individual to another which are not actually patterns
or samples, are not admissible.
§ 1. The postage must be prepaid either by adhe-
sive stamps or by means of a stamped wrapper, or
by a combination of both.
§ 2. Patterns or Samples, when practicable, must
be sent in covers open at the ends, and in such a
manner as to be easy of examination.* But samples
of seeds, drugs, and such like articles, which cannot
be sent in covers of this kind — but such articles only
— may be posted inclosed in boxes or in bags of
linen, or other material, fastened in such a manner
that they may be readily opened ; or in the cases of
samples of seeds, &c., for the United States of
America, Holland and its possessions, Belgium,
Denmark, Greece, Portugal and its possessions, and
Switzerland, in bags entirely closed, provided such
closed bags are transparent, so as to enable the offi-
cers of the Post Office readily to satisfy themselves
as to the nature of the contents.
§ 3. There must be no writing or printing uporfc
or in any packet except the address of the person for
whom it is intended, the address of the sender, a
* In order to secure the return of book pacKets which
cannot be delivered, the names and adaresses of the send-
ers should be printed or written orus-ide: thus. From,
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