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POSTAL DIEECTORY— EATES.
army or assistant engineer, gunner, boatswain, or
carpenter in the navy, the privilege not extending
to these officers.
If the letter be posted in the United Kingdom,
the postage must be prepaid. If posted abroad,
prepayment is not compulsory ; but if the letter be
sent unpaid, it is charged double on delivery.
The name of the soldier or seaman, with his
class or description, must appear in the direction,
and the officer naving the command must sign his
name, and specify the ship or regiment, corps or
ietachment, to which the soldier or seaman belongs ;
the name of the ship or regiment being entered in
full. The foregoing particulars must be given in
one of the following forms : —
Seamen.
From A. B., Seaman, H.M.S.
(Here the direction of the letter to he inserted.')
C. -D; Captain (or other Commanding Officer'),
H.M.S.
To A. B.,
Seaman, H.M.S.
(Here the direction of the letter to be finished.)
■ Eegt. ■
Soldiers.
From A. B., Sergeant, etc., —
(Here the direction of the letter to 'be inserted.)
C. i>; Colonel (or other Commanding Officer),
Eegt.
To A. B.,
Private (or Sergeant, Corporal, etc.) Eegt.
(Here the direction to hefinislied.)
LETTERS FOR PASSENGERS ON BOARD
MAIL PACKETS.
Letters for passengers on board the packets
for America touching at Queenstown, or on board
the Mediterranean packets about to sail from Brin-
disi with the mails for India, Australia, China,
etc., may be posted up to the time at which ordinary
registered letters to go by the same packets are
received. They must be registered, and addressed
to the ' care of the commander of the packet.'
Letters for passengers by the Canadian packets
touching at Londonderry may, under similar con-
ditions, be posted up to the same time as ordinary
registered letters for Canada, and must be addressed
to the ' care of the officer in charge of the maQs.'
Letters directed Post Restante, Suez, and de-
spatched by the mail via Brindisi, will probably
reach passengers for India, etc., who have sailed in
the packet from Gravesend the previous week.
LETTERS BY PRIVATE SHIPS.
Letters intended to be sent by private si])];
must be addressed 'By Private Ship;' and if by
a particular vessel, the name of the ship must
be added. The postage of a letter by a private ship
is as follows : —
Country.
♦Ascension and Australia, .
Cape Colony and Natal,
Ceylon, Hong Kong, India,")
Straits Settlements, . /
St. Helena,
Postal Union countries, ex-
cept Ceylon, Hong Kong,
India, and Straits Settle-
ments, ....
♦All other countries, .
Prepaid
Letter,
per 3 oz.
6d.
6d.
4d.
4d.
same as
mall
packets.
6d.
Fine if not
wholly prepaid.
6d. each.
4d. each.
double
deficiency.
Letters cannot be sent unpaid to the countries
marked thus (*). The postage for letters weigh-
ing more than |- oz. advances in the same manner
as that for letters sent by mail packets.
Book packets and patterns may be sent for the
same postage as by mail packets.
Newspapers must be prepaid Id. each per 4 oz.
REGULATIONS AS TO PREPAYMENT, REGISTRATION, ETC.
MODES OF PREPAYMENT.
Inland letters, newspapers, and book packets can
only be prepaid by means of postage stamps, except
at the General Post Office, Edinburgh, where letters
and book packets may, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., be
prepaid in money, provided the amount be not
less than £1, and that the letters and book packets
be tied in separate bundles of 5s. each, with the
addresses arranged in the same direction.
REGISTRATION (INLAND AND FOREIGN).
The fee for registering a letter, newspaper, or
book packet passing between any two places in
the United Kingdom is 2d. The fee chargeable
to places abroad will be found in the Table of
Colonial and Foreign Postage. To some countries
a letter can be registered only to the port of arrival,
and to a few countries there is no arrangement for
registration.
No letter or postal packet addressed to initials
or to a fictitious name can be registered, unless
addressed to the care of a person or firm. Every
article presented for registration must be enclosed
in a strong cover securely fastened, and if coin be
sent such must be packed in such a way as to move
about as little as possible.
The sender of a registered article addressed to
any foreign country or British colony in the
Postal Union may obtain an acknowledgment of
its due receipt by the addressee on paying a fee
of 2|d. at the time of registration.
Eegistered letters, etc., must be prepaid as re-
gards both postage and registration fee ; except
official letters for Government Offices in London,
Dublin, or Edinburgh, which may be registered on
prepayment, in stamps, of the registration fee only.
Every letter, etc., to be registered must be given
to an agent of the Post Office, and a receipt ob-
tained for it, and should on no account be dropped
into the letter-box. If an article marked ' registered '
be dropped into the letter-box, directed to any place
in the United Kingdom, it will be liable to a regis-
tration fee of 8d., instead of the ordinary fee of 2d. ; .
and if posted containing coin, watches, or jewellery,
without being registered, will be treated in like
manner.
Letters containing coin for any of the British
colonies not in the Postal Union can be registered, i
and if posted unregistered, they are treated as inland
letters under similar circumstances.
Letters containing coin, jewellery, or precious
articles, cannot be accepted for registration to any
country in the Postal Union.
Eegistered letters require to be posted at General
Post Office thirty minutes, and receiving offices
fifteen minutes, before the closing of the box for
ordinary letters ; but upon payment of a late fee of
4d. they may be registered at General Post Office