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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
revenue, and is at the rate of £3 per annum, pay-
able in advance. Special arrangements are made for
loclied bags to and from the renters of private bosos
and the Post Office.
A Retuened Letter Office is established in
Glasgow, and all undeliveiable letters addressed to
Glasgow and its sub-offices are disposed of there.
On reaching the Returned Letter Office a letter
originating in the United Kingdom is at once opened,
and if found to contain the writer's address is I
returned to him. If it does not contain either the
■writer's address or an article of value the letter is '
destro3ed. Any letter or packet which on being
opened is found to contain value is, for its safet}-,
recorded and returned registered and, unless regis-
tered at the time of posting, the registration fee of
2d. is^ charged on the sender. Letters bearing the
sender's r.ame and address impressed or printed on
the envelopes arc returned unopened.
After being retained for periods varying from one
week to two months, foreign and colonial letters are,
with few exceptions, returned unopened to the coun-
tries from which they were received.
Stamps (Postage and Inland Revenue).
At every Money Order Office the Postmaster is
required to keep for sale to the public a sufficient
stock of the different postage stamps ia use ; envelopes
with an embossed penny postage stamp ; registered
letter envelopes; newspaper wrappers with an im-
pressed halfpenny and penny postage stamps; and
inland and foreign post cards.
Postage Stamps,* which are available for the
prepayment of telegrams, are of the respective values
of 4d., Id., lid., 2d., L'Ad., 3d., 4d., 5d., 6d., Is.,
2s. 6d., 5s., 10s., £1, and £5.
Stamped Envelopes. — The embossed postage en-
velopes are of three sizes, viz, A. 4|- by 3f J inches
(square shape, white), C. 6J by 3 inches (white), and
Commercial, Sf 'oy 3^ ii.ches (white), and are sold at
the following prices : —
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s. d.
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* Tlie documents for which Postage Stamx>s may in
futiu-e be used are : —
Agreements liable to a duty of 6d.
Bills of Exchange for payment of money on demand
liable to the duty of Id.
Certified copies of, or extracts from, registers of births
&c. (duty Id.) '
Charter parties (duty 6d.)
Contract notes (duty Id.)
Delivery orders (duty Id.)
Lease, or tack, or agreement, for the letting, for any
definite term less than a year, of a dwelling-house,
or part of a dwelling-house, at a rent not exceeding
£10 a year (duty Id.) Of a furnished dwelling-house,
or apartments, for any definite terra less than a year
(duties 6d., Is., Is. 6d., 2s., and 2s. 6d.)
Letters of renunciation (duty Id.)
Notarial acts (duty Is.)
Policies of insurance (not life or marine — duty Id.)
Protests of bills of exchange or of promissory notes
(duties Id., 2d., 3d., 6d., 9d., and Is.)
Proxies liable to the duty of Id.
Kecoipts (duty id.)
Transfers of shares in cost book mines (duty 6d.)
Voting papers (duty Id.)
Warrants for goods (duty 3d.)
-?>^-S-— Postage Stamps cannot be used for Inland Bills
payable otherwise than on demand— tor Promissory notes ,
for Foreign Bills, for Law or other fees, nor for any docu-'
ments other than those above enumerated.
Registered letter envelopes, bearing a t\Yopenny
stamp embossed on the flap for the payment of the
registration fee, are of five sizes, and are sold at the
following prices:— F. 51 by 31 inches, and G. 6 bv
3 J inches, 2id. each, or 2s. 2Jd. per packet of twelre';
H. 8 by 5 inches, 2f d. each, or 2s. 7d. per packet of
twelve ; I. 10 by 7^ inches, and K. ll-i bv 6 inches,
Sd. each, or 2s. lOd. per packet of twelve.
Stamps should be placed on the front, that is, on
the address side of the letter, and in the right hand
upper corner. On re-directed letters care should be
taken not to jplace fresh stamps over those which
have been previously used.
In affixing the stamps, the corner of the envelope
and the gummed side of the stamp should be slightlv
wetted, and then the stamp should be gently pressed
till it is firmly fixed. The practice of dipping the
stamp in water is objectionable ; because, unlesl the
stamp be immediately withdrawn, and care be taken,
by the use of blotting paper or some other absorbent,
to remove any excess of moisture, the gum may be
washed off, or the stamp may be rubbed off the
letter. By the use of envelopes bearing an embossed
stamp (which can be obtained at any Post Office) all
risk of the stamp being detached may be avoided.
Newspaper wmppers are sold at the following
prices: —
Beating Halfpenny Stamp.
1 - |d. I 4 - 2-Jd. 8 - 4|d
2 - lid. ! 5 - 3d. 9 - 6:ld.
3 - l|d. I 6 - S.id. 10- - ofi.
I ' - 4id.
£1 2s. lOd. per parcel of 480.
Bearing Penny Stamp.
1 - IJd. 4 - 4id. 7 - rid.
2 - 2id. 5 - Sid. 8 - 8id
3 - 3i-d. 6 - 6^d.
£1 Is. 3d. per parcel of 240.
Uncut sheets of these wrappers impressed with
halfpenny or penny postage stamps can be ob-
tained at any Post Office by giving two or three days'
notice. They are sold only in quarter reams of 120
sheets ; each sheet containing 14 wrappers, and the
prices per quarter roam are £3 18s. for the wrappers
bearing the halfpenny stamp, and £7 Ss. for those
bearing the penny stamp.