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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS,
calculated, from the boundary of the district within
which no porterage is levied. For instance, if the
addressee's residence is a mile and a quarter from
the terminal office, and also beyond the town postal
delivery, the charge for porterage would be 6d.; if the
distance is above two miles and under three, Is.
8. If the addressee resides at a greater distance
than three miles from the terminal ofBce, porterage
is charged for delivery by mounted messenger at the
rate of Is. per mile, except in Ireland, where the
charge usually is 8d. per mile. The charge being
reckoned from the Office door.
9. If the sender requires his telegram to be for-
warded by post or by train from the terminal office,
he must write the words "by post" or ''by train"
at the end of the address, and in the latter cuse he
must deposit Is. to cover the cost of conveyance.
10. A deprisit of Ss. is required upon all telegrams
addressed to persons on board ship (unless the ship
be lying along side a wharf, jetty, or pier) to cover
any expense incurred in their delivery; but applicaj
tion can be made to the Secretary for any surplus.
Such application should be made within three months.
11. An embossed stamp which has been removed
from a spoiled and unused " A 1 " form will be
accepted in payment of a telegram ; but mutilated
or defaced stamps will not.
12. The sender should avoid all words not strictly
necessary in his address. He is not obliged to have
his address telegraphed, but he should furnish it to
enable the Department to communicate with him, if
necessary. When the address is not to be telegraphed,
it should be written at the foot or on the back of
the form,
13. Telegrams can be repeated at the request of
the sender, if he desires to adopt this security against
risk of error, by being signalled back from each
office at which they are received to the office from
which they are forwarded. No copy of the telegram
is, in such case, given to the sender. The charge
for repetition is one half the ordinary tariff; fractions
of threepence being reckoned as twopence.
14. The cost of a reply not exceeding forty words
in length may be prepaid ; and a reply form will then
be delivered to the addressee, who will be at liberty
to send his reply, from any Telegraph Office, at any
time within two months after the date of the original
telegram. If the form be not used application for the
return of the money, accompanied by the form, may
be made by the holder to the secretary. General Post
Office, London. A reply form, however, need not
necessarily be used for the reply to a message, but may
be used for the purpose of prepaying a message con-
taining the same number of words as that named
on it.
15. Telegrams re-transmitted to a second address
by wire or pneumatic tube are liable to additional
charge at the ordinary Inland rate. No charge is
made for the second service, if the re-direction does
not involve any use of the wires or tubes. In addition
to the amount chargeable on each re-transmitted
telegram, a fee of £1 Is. per annum is charged for
the registration of special instructio;is as to the re-
direction of telegrams after office hours. Removals
are registered, when this is specially requested, for a
period of one month ; and no charge is made for the
registration.
16. Persons who wish to avoid sending to a tele-
graph office, may, without additional charge, post a
telegram form inclosedin an envelope, addressed " Tele-
gram Immediate," in a wall or pillar box, or in the
letter-box of a Receiving Office or Sub-Post Office.
Telegrams so posted are sent to the nearest Postal
Telegraph Office by the first collection from the
letter-box in which they are deposited, and are then
transmitted by wire as soon as possible. Care should
be taken that such telegrams are fully prepaid.
17. Telegrams so posted, but insufficiently prepaid,
are forwarded to their destination, the difference of
charge being obtained from the addressee. Unpaid
telegrams are not forwarded.
18. Most of the Telegraph Offices in the United
Kingdom are closed between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.; and
as time is required for transmission between office
and office, a telegram if it be deposited in a bos at
such a time that it cannot reach a Telegraph Office
before 7 p.m., may not reach its destination until
after 8 a.m. on the following day. Postmasters may
accept telegrams after the usual hours on payment of
certain fees, provided that the terminal office is open,
or, that the attention of that office can be gained.
19. Telegrams may be handed to rural letter-
carriers on their way to telegraph offices.
20. Numbers expressed in figures are counted
as so manj- words, according to the number of
figures employed. For example, " 7 " counts as
one word, ''12" as two words, "385" as three
words; and so on. Fractions are counted accord-
ing to the number of figures employed to ex-
press the quantity, one word being added for the bar
or mark of division between the numerator and de-
nominator — thus "-^"counts as three words, "f"
as three words, "109|-" as six words. In groups
of figures intended to express time, any bar or stop
is counted as one word ; thus, " -i-|- " counts as five
words. Ordinal numbers are charged in the same
way as cardinal numbers, with the addition of one
word for the affix st, rd, or th, as the case may be.
21. When the sender of a telegram desires that
special instructions, such as " private," " confiden-
tial," " to be opened at once," or the like, shall be
written on the envelope of the message, he must write
the instructions immediately after the address of the
receiver. The instructions are charged for as part of
the message.
22. When telegrams are addressed to a Telegraph
Office to be called for, they are kept for two clear
days ; and if no application be made for them within
that time, are sent to the Chief Office, London.
23. Telegrams for the re-direction of letters are
accepted at the ordinary rate of charge ; but, the
sender must append his signature to the telegram,
otherwise it cannot be acted upon.
24. Telegrams which are indecently or obscenely
worded, or which appear to contain abusive, libellous,
or grossly offensive matter, will not be transmitted.
25. The Department is not liable for losses in-
curred through the incorrect transmission, delay, or
non-delivery of telegrams.
26. Telegraph offices are, as a rule, open from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m. on week days, and from 8 a.m. to 10
a,m. on Sundays. There are, however, offices in
several of the larger towns which are open for longer
periods. At the following offices in London and in
the country there is attendance continuously dur-
ing the day and night, both on week days and
Sundays.
London Offices. — Central Telegraph Station,