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108 POSTAL DIRECTORY.
A Postmaster is not bound to re-direct letters for a person temporarily
leaving home, and not having a private bag or box, unless the house be left
uninhabited.
Spoilt Stamps.
Applications for allowance on spoilt, or unused, postage stamps, embossed
envelopes, post-cards, or newspaper wrappers, which have not passed through
-the post, should be made at the Stamp Office.
Foreign and Colonial Letters.
The rates of postage on letters for Foreign Countries and the Colonies will
he found in the Table of Foreign and Colonial Postage.
Letters posted unpaid, or insufficiently paid, to any country where payment
Is compulsory, are returned to the writers.
Unpaid letters to or from Postal Union coi;ntries or Australia, New
Zealand, Cape Colony, Natal, Bechuanaland, Orange Free States, Transvaal,
^and St Helena are charged double the prepaid rate. Partially prepaid
letters are charged with double the deficiency.
No letter for a colony or foreign country may e:^ceed 2 feet in length or
foot in width or depth.
Foreign and Colonial Newspapers.
The rates of postage to Foreign countries and the Colonies on newspapers
registered for transmission abroad will be found in the Table of Foreign and
■Colonial Postage. Each newspaper is liable to a separate rate of post-
age, whether sent singly or in a packet.
The conditions of Registration of Newspapers for transmission abroad are
the same as those for inland transmission ; excepting that for foreign trans-
mission a Newspaper may be published at intervals of thirty-one days.
Moreover, Prices Current and Market Reports (but not private price lists or
trade catalogues) may be registered as Newspapers for foreign transmission,
provided that they be published at intervals not exceeding thirty-one days.
All publications registered for transmission abroad mtist be posted loithin
sight dcujsfrom the date of jyiiblication, including that day ; and any newspaper
posted more than eight days after the date of publication, as well as any un-
f egistered publication, must be prepaid at the book rates of postage.
The collected numbers issued during the month of a weekly or fortnightly
publication are not allowed to pass as a monthly publication.
Foreign and Colonial Book Post.
Articles which may be sent to places abroad under the Book Post Regulations
consist of two classes, as follows : —
(a) " Commercial Papers," under which are comprised all pajjers or docu-
ments written or drawn wholly or partly by hand (except letters or com-
munications in the nature of letters, or other papers or documents having
the character of an actual and personal correspondence), documents of
legal procedure. Deeds drawn up by public functionaries, copies of or
extracts from Deeds under i^rivate seal (and whether written or printed
on stamped or unstamped paper). Way Bills, Bills of Lading, Livoices, and
other documents of a mercantile character, documents of Insiu-ance and
other public companies, all kinds of manuscript music, the manuscript
of booksand other literary works, and otherpapersof a similar description.
(b) " Printed Papers," including periodical works, books (stitched or bound),
pamphlets, sheets of music (printed), visiting cards, address cards, proofs
of printing (with or withoutthe manuscript relating thereto), engravings,
photographs (when not on glass or in frames containing glass), drawings,
pictures, papers impressed for the use of the blind or card-board drawing,