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12-2 POSTAL DIRECTORY.
Tiie rates of postage for Postal Union countries (see p. 121) are as follows:
For Countries in Class A
For Countries in Class B
not printed in italics,
and for Hong- Kong-,
via San Francisco.
For Countries in Class
B which are printed
in italics, via Brindisi
Do. by French Packet
(except India).
For Countries in Class C
not printed in italics,
and f orNewCaledonia
by French Packet, or
via San Francisco.
For Countries in Class C
which are printed in
italics, via, Brindisi.
Do. by French Packet
(except New Cale-
donia).
* S o
I
2hd.
2id
2id
2M
4d
5d
5d
For
For a
a
News-
Post Card.
paper.
Id.
id per
2oz.
IJd
Id per
4 oz.
2d
lid per
4 oz.
Ud
lid per
4 oz.
l^d
Id per
4 oz.
2d
l|d per
4 oz.
l^d
Ijd per
4 oz.
For
Printed
papers,
per 2 oz.
Id
lid
Id
Id
lid
Id
For
Commercial
Papers.
Same as for
Printed Pa-
pers, except
that the low-
est charge
for each
packet is 2id
in all cases".
For Patterns
Same as for
Printed Pa-
pers, except
that as re-
g-ards those
countries
where the
postage is a
halfpenny
per 2 oz.,
the lowest
charge is Id.
Post Office Telegkaphs. — Inland Telegrams.
The charge for telegrams throughout the United Kingdom is 6d for the
first 12 words, and ^d for every additional word. Addresses are charged for.
The telegram forms are of two kinds, the "Al" form, embossed with a
stamp, and the "A" form (given gratis), with no stamp. The "Al forms"
may be purchased singly. They may also be had in books of 20, interleaved,
and with a sheet of carbonic paper, price 10s 2d each book.
When the addressee resides beyond the free delivery, porterage is charged
at the rate of 6d per mile or part of a mile, provided the whole distance does
not exceed three miles.
If the addressee resides at a greater distance than three miles from the
terminal office, porterage is charged, for delivery by mounted messenger, at
the rate of Is per mile (except in Ireland, where the charge xisually is only
8d per mile), the distance being reckoned from the office door.
No combination of words is counted as one, with the exception of those
which are ordinarily written as one, or coupled by hyphens, as "mother-in-
law," "non-delivery," "almshouses," "forty-seven." Certain exceptional
names, such as O'Neil, MacDonald, De la Rue, are charged for as single words.
So, too, are names with the prefix " St," as StPancras ; but double names of
persons, like Smith-Payne, are counted as two words.
Abbreviations of words, "can't," "won't, "don't," are counted as single
words, but there is a great risk of error.
Figures are counted at the rate of five figures to a word. Fractions are
counted according to the number of figures employed, one figure being added
for the mark of division. In groups of figures a stop is counted as a figure.
The symbols o/o, a/c, b/1, and c/o are each counted as one word.
Anyone may have an abbreviated address, or special instructions as to hours
of delivery of telegrams, registered on payment of a guinea a year.