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POSTAL DIRECTORY— RATES.
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India is Is. per. lb. or fraction of a lb. (prepay-
ment optional). Insurance may be effected at the
rate (to be prepaid) of Is. up to £3 value, 2s. fid.
up to £10 value, and 5s. up to £"20 value. Indian
Customs duty (if chargeable) will be realized from
the addressee.
The maximum weight, size, and value of a
parcel are: — weight 50 lbs., size 2 feet long by 1
foot broad and 1 foot deep, value £20.
The following articles are forbidden contents : —
Jewellery, watches, precious stones, liquids, or
articles of a dangerous or damaging nature.
Parcels must be entirely closed and securely
packed and fastened; a covering of cloth or water-
proof sewn at the edges being recommended. The
Indian address should be legibly written, with the
.superscription, 'By Indian Parcel Tost.'
A letter of advice, stating name and address on
parcel, contents and value for Custom House
clearance, with legible signature and address of
sender, should be sent to the Agency with each
parcel.
Parcels forwarded from the country to the Office
in London should have the Indian address, en-
closed in an outer covering, bearing the address,
'Indian Parcel Post Agency, 122 Lcadenhall
Street, Lordon, E.O.' The charges for carriage
to London are additional to charges for transit
or insurance to India, and may be prepaid to the
local carrying agent, or left to bo paid on dolivery
in London, and subsequeutly collected from the
addressee. Cheques or money orders in payment
for transit or insurance should be made payable to
A. M. Bethuue.
SPECIAL RATES OF POSTAGE, AND CONDITIONS OF
TRANSMISSION.
ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN, AND
PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT.
Petitions and addresses to Her Majesty, forwarded
direct, are exempt from postage ; and such peti-
tions and addresses, as also petitions to either House
of Parliament, if sent to a member of either House,
are likewise exempt, provided they do not weigh
more than two pounds, and are without covers, or
,in covers open at the ends. No letter or other
| enclosure, however, must be inserted ; and if one
i be found, such enclosure, unless it bear the proper
number of postage stamps, will be charged as an
! unpaid letter.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
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 -id. for every two ounces or fraction of that weight.
The words 'Parliamentary Proceedings' must
be written or printed on the cover of the packet ;
otherwise it will be treated as an ordinary book
packet.
Prepayment, when the circulation is within the
United Kingdom, is optional ; and when paid in
part, the amount deficient only is charged.
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.
The limit of size prescribed for ordinary book
packets does not apply to printed parliamentary
proceedings.
PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.
Parliamentary notices may be forwarded through
the post under the following regulations : —
The words ' Parliamentary Notice ' must be
legibly printed on the face of the letter ; and in
order to secure the speedy return of any notices
which may be undelivered, the name and address
of the solicitor issuing such parliamentary notice
should also be legibly printed or written on the
face of the letter ; though this is not imperative.
These notices must be posted at any Post Office
at which money order business is transacted.
All notices which, by the standing orders of
either House of Parliament, are required to be
served on or before the 15th December, must be
posted not later than the 12th December, unless
the 12th fall on a Sunday, when they must be
posted not later than the 11th ; but those notices
which, by the same orders, may be served after the
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15th, must be posted at least three clear days before
the time specified in the standing orders.
The postage chargeable on these notices, and the
registration fee of 6d. on each, must be prepaid by
j stamps.
The notices must be posted at the Post Office
! window, accompanied with duplicate lists of the
addresses ; the notices being arranged, for the con-
venience of comparison, in the order of the list,
j These lists will be examined by the officer in
attendance at the window ; and if they correspond
jwith the addresses, he will sign and stamp every
I sheet of each list. One of the duplicate lists will
| then be returned to the person who brought the
letters, and the other forwarded to the Secretary,
General Post Office, London.
The hours for receiving such notices are the
same as those for the registry of ordinary letters,
unless they be presented at 6uch a time as to inter-
fere with the other duties of the office ; in which
case the postmaster may appoint any other time
within the next twenty-four hours for receiving
the same, provided that, when the notices are to
be served on or before the 15th December, such
arrangement do not delay the posting beyond the
12th. Ee-directed parliamentary notices are, like
letters, liable to an additional rate of postage.
The senders of parliamentary notices should, if
Possible, arrange on the previous day with the
postmaster as to the most convenient time for
posting them, and state the probable number.
LETTERS FOR NON-COMMISSIONED OFFI-
CERS, SOLDIERS, AND SEAMEN LN HER
MAJESTY'S SERVICE.
Non-commissioned officers, bandmasters, army
schoolmasters (not being superintending school-
masters or schoolmasters of the 1st class), school-
mistresses, private soldiers, or seamen belonging
to Her Majesty's ships, whether serving on sea or
land, and whether in a British possession or foreign
country, as also enrolled pensioners in Canada, can
send and receive letters by packet or man-of-war,
for a postage of Id.; but it any such letters have to
pass through a foreign country, they are subject,
in addition, to the foreign postage, whatever that
may be. Thus, the postage to the under-mentioned
countries (including the British charge of one
penny) is as follows :
To or from — s. c.
China, Ceylon, India, Japan, or Australia,
via Brindisi 4
Chili, Peru, or any other place in the South
Pacific, via Southampton aid Panama . 2