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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
trade mark or number, and the price of the
articles.
§ 4. The limit of weight is not the same to all
countries. For particulars, see foot note at pages
6 to 15.
§ 5. A packet of patterns or samples sent to
Portugal, Madeira, the Azores, Cape de Verds,
France, or to Turkey, Syria, or Egypt, by French
packet, must not exceed 18 inches in length, width,
or depth ; a packet to any other place abroad must
not exceed 24 inches in length, or 12 inches in
breadth or depth.
§ 6. Samples of intrinsic value must not be sent
to foreign countries except the United States ; and,
in the case of France, samples of eider down, raw or
thread silk, woollen or goats' hair thread, vanilla,
saffron, carmine, or isinglass, are considered to fall
under this rule, if they weigh more than three ounces.
Kaw and spun silk, as well as coloured and twisted
silk, may be sent to the North German Confedera-
tion up to the weight of three ounces.
§ 7. Such articles as scissors, knives, razors, forks,
steel pens, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tub-
ing, pieces of metal or ore, provided that they be
packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to
afford complete protection to the contents of the
mail bags and the officers of the Post Office, while
at the same time they may be easily examined, may
be sent as samples to the following countries, but to
those alone, viz., the United States of America,
Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia, Portugal,
Madeira, the Azores, Cape de Verds, Switzerland,
and the British Colonies, and not to these places
when addressed "via France." Indigo cannot be
sent to any place abroad.
POST CAEDS.
Post cards which bear a halfpenny impressed
stamp are available for transmission between places
in the United Kingdom only.
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 ; but such communication must not extend
to the front side. Nothing whatever may be attached;
nor may the card be folded, cut, or otherwise altered.
If any of these conditions be infringed the card will
be charged Id. on delivery.
No card other than one of those issued bj' the
government will pass under a halfpenny stamp if it
bear on it a loritten communication of the nature of
a letter.
It is forbidden to forward by post any card having
thereon any words, marks, or designs of an indecent,
obscene, libellous, or grossly offensive character.
Any card posted contrary to this prohibition will be
stopped and sent up to the Returned Letter Office,
Edinburgh.
POSTAGE STAMPS.
1 . Postage stamps must be hept for sale. — Every
Head-postmaster is required to keep for sale to the
public a sufficient stock of halfpenny post cards, of
the various postage labels in use, and of envelopes
with the penny stamp embossed. The labels are of
the respective values of §d., Id., Ijd., 2d., 3d., 4d.,
6d., 9d., lOd., Is., 2s., 6s.
2. Embossed Penny Envelopes axe) of four sizes, viz.,
5J inches by 3| inches, 6J inches by 3 inches, 42
inches oy 2| inches, 4 inches by i\ inches, and are
sold at the following rates : —
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Head-postmasters are also required to keep news-
paper wrappers bearing an impressed halfpenny stamp
of three different sizes, and to sell them at the fol-
lowing prices : —
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3. Stamps. — Prepayment of inland letters, &c.,
must be by labels or embossed stamps. British
postage stamps are not, as a general rule, available
for letters coming into the country. Letters to the
colonies and foreign countries may be prepaid in
money.
4. By using embossed envelopes all risk of the
stamp being detached may be avoided ; but when
labels are used, they should be examined to see that
they firmly adhere, since if they fall off, the letters,
&c., will be charged with postage, which, in the case
of inland letters, is double the prepaid rate ; while,
as respects many letters addressed to many places
abroad, the transmission will be altogether stopped.
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