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POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS.
LOCAL FOOT POSTS AND STAGE COACHES.
Box closes.
Neilston, Barrhead, Pollokshaws, &c 5.30 a.m.
Do. do. do. 11.30 a.m.
Maryhill, Milngavie, Springbank, &c 3.30 p.m.
Do. do. do. 10.15 p.m.
Eaglesham, Busby, and Cathcart 10.15 p.m.
Busby and Eaglesham 3.30 p.m.
Govan and Road Delivery 5.30 a.m.
Do. do. 11.30 a.m.
Partick and Road Delivery 5.30 a.m.
Do. do. 11.30 a.m.
Cambuslang and Rutherglen 5.30 a.m.
Do. do 11.30 a.m.
Springburn 5.30 a.m.
Do 11.30 a.m.
Lennoxtown and Torrance 10.15 p.m.
Hillhead, Sandyford, and Kelvinhaugh 5.30 a.m.
Do. do. do. 11.30 a.m.
Pollokshields 5.30 a.m.
Id. Fee tip to
5.45 a.m.
11.45 a.m.
3.40 p m.
10.30 p.m.
10.30 p.m.
3.40 p.m.
5.45 a.m.
11.45 a.m.
5.45 a.m.
11.45 a.m.
5.45 a.m.
11.45 a.m.
5.45 a.m.
11.45 a.m.
, 10.30 p.m.
5.45 a.m.
11.45 a.m.
5.45 a.m.
POSTAGE STAMPS, &c.
As the system of paying Inland Letters has been done away with, the public must
use Postage Stamps.
Stamps may be procured at the General Office, Glassford Street, the Stamp-Office,
and the several Receiving-Houses.
The Penny Labels, , at Id. each.
The Twopenny Labels, at 2d. "
The Sixpenny Labels, at 6d. "
The Tenpenny Labels, at lOd. "
The Shilling Labels, at Is. "
The Penny Envelopes, 24 for 2s. 3d., or 2 for 2|d.
When the value of Stamps on a letter is less than the amount of the postage to
which it is liable, the Letter will be charged double the amount of such difference on
delivery.
Stamps may be used for Printed Voles and Proceedings in Parliament, and on
Foreign, Colonial, and Ship Letters, outwards. Letters for parts abroad posted with
Stamps of less value than the full amount of Postage, if addressed to places to which
prepayment is not compulsory, will be forwarded, charged with only such amount
of Postage as shall be equal to the difference between the value of the Stamps and the
proper rate of Postage; but letters addressed to places abroad, to which prepayment
is compulsory, if posted with Stamps of less value than the full amount of Postage,
will be sent to the Dead-Letter Office, to be returned, in all practical cases, to the
writer. Stamps are not permitted to be used on Letters arriving in the United King-
dom from the Colonies or Foreign Countries.
These Regulations are applicable to Newspapers, in those cases where they are
liable to Postage.
If the Stamps affixed to letters are mutilated or defaced, the letters will be liable
to the unpaid rate.
A Stamp which has been cut from an envelope and affixed to a letter, entitles it to
pass free of charge.
Redirected Letters are charged an additional postage for each redirection, according
to the Prepaid Scale.
Letters to Warm Climates should be sealed with wafers, as wax destroys the let-
ters by melting, causing them to adhere to one another.
No Letter, when once posted, can be given up to any but the person to whom it
is addressed, neither is any person allowed to alter the address of a letter after being
posted.
Adhesive Stamjjs should be placed on the right-hand corner of the upper side of the
letters, above the superscription. The most effectual plan is to dip the label wholly