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74 POSTAL DIRECTORY.
Letters sent to Foreign Countries generally, via Belgium, or to Prussia,
Portugal, Madeira, the Azores, and Cape de Verds, are charged 2d per rate
in addition to the ordinary postage.
Letters posted wholly unpaid for Algeria and France, or for Austria via
France, are charged 8d per i oz., and those posted wholly unpaid, or paid
less than one rate of postage, for the Canary Islands, Majorca, Minorca, and
Spain are charged double the prepaid rate. Letters for the Canary Islands,
Majorca, Minorca, and Spain insufficiently prepaid are, provided one rate at
least be paid, charged with double the deficiency.
Those for Alexandria, Cairo, and Suez, sent via Marseilles by British
packet, and those for Alexandria, Cairo, and Constantinople, sent by French
packet, are charged with a postage of 9d per 5 oz.
Letters posted unpaid (wholly or in part) for Belgium or Holland, via
Belgium, are charged 3d each in addition to the ordinary postage; those
sent to Holland via France are charged 8d per £ oz., and those for the United
States an additional postage of 5 cents each.
The same rates are chargeable in this country upon letters posted un-
paid wholly or in part from the above places, except from Alexandria, Cairo,
and Suez, via Southampton, China, and Holland via France, which are
charged the prepaid rate only, and from the United States, which are
charged an additional rate of 6d each .
Letters intended to be sent by Private Ship 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 to Belgium and the British
West Indies is 3d per £ oz. ; of a letter to the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St.
Helena, Ascension, 4d per $ oz. ; to France, 4d per 5 oz. ; in all other cases
the postage is 6d per I oz. Letters may be sent unpaid to the following places,
viz. .- — Belgium, British "West Indies, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon,
Falkland Islands, France and Algeria, Gold Coast, Holland, Hong Kong,
India. Mauritius, Natal, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince
Edward Island, St. Helena, and Sierra Leone ; but to all other places pre-
payment is compulsory. Newspapers by private Ships are charged Id
each.
G.U. — According to the regulations of the German Customs' Union, no
Letter exceeding 50 grammes (a little more than I3 oz.) in weight, and con-
taining any other inclosures than paper, can he allowed to circulate by the
post. Any Letters, then, forwarded in the Mail to Prussia above that
weight, and containing any other inclosures than paper, will be liable, on
their arrival at the Prussian frontier, to be stopped and sent to the Custom
House for delivery as freight.
P Signifies that patterns can be sent at book rates.
B.— Where the letter B is prefixed to the Book Post Rate, no packet
must exceed 3 lbs.
Periodicals not of daily publication, issued in the shape of pamphlets,
may be sent to Holland, the United States, California, and Oregon at the
following rate, which must be prepaid: — Not exceeding 2 oz. Id; 2 oz., and
not exceeding 3 ©z., 6d ; 3 oz., and not exceeding 4 oz., 8d ; with an addition
of 2d for every additional ounce, up to 16 ounces, above which weight the
privilege does not extend. At the same rate of postage, pamphlets, even
though they are not periodicals, may be sent to the United States, Cali-
fornia, and Oregon, if not exceeding 8 oz. This is only the British postage,
a further sum being charged on delivery. Other printed boeks to those
places are liable to Letter Rate of Postage. There must be no writing upon
such pamphlets, except the names and addresses of the persons to whom
they are sent.
Certain Postmasters in England and Wales are permitted, though not
compelled, to purchase postage stamps from the public, provided the stamps
be not soiled or otherwise damaged, at a charge of two and a-half per cent.;
the charge, however, never being less than one halfpenny. Under this ar-
rangement the payments are as follow : —
S. D. S. 0.
1 7i for Stamps of the value of 1 8
3 3 3 4
4 104 5
6 6 6 8
9 9 10 and so on