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POSTAL DIRECTORY.
Registration of Letters, &c.— The fee chargeable for registering a
letter in addition to the ordinary postage, hotli of ivhicli -must he prepaid, will
be found against each country in the table oi Foreign and Colonial Postage.
B. — Where the letter B is prefixed to the Book Post Rate, no packet
must exceed 3 lbs.
Routes. — When the route by which a Letter, &c., is to go is not marked
on it, it will, under ordinary circumstances, be sent by the route immedi-
ately following the name of the place in the foregoing Table.
G.U. — According to the regulations of the German Customs' Union, no
Letter exceeding 50 grammes (a little more than IJ oz.) in weight, and con-
taining any other enclosure than paper, can be allowed to circulate by the
post. Any Letters, then, forwarded in the Mail to Prussia above that
weight, and containing any other enclosure 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
Non-commissioned oificers, private soldiers, or seamen serving abroad,
can receive letters for a postage of Id. provided the letter weigh not more
than half an ounce, the postage be prepaid, and the direction distinctly
specify the rank or class of the soldier or seaman, and the ship or regiment
to which he bftlongs ; but if any such letters have to pass through a Foreign
Country, they are subject, in addition, to the Foreign Rates.
Letters addressed to a Commissioned Officer (whether ia the Navy or
the Royal Marines), Warrant Officer (viz.. Assistant Engineer, Gunner,
Boatswain, or Carpenter), Midshipman or Master's Mate, serving abroad,
are subject to a uniform British Kate of 6d. per i oz. each, which must be
prepaid, and when such letters have to pass through a foreign country, tliey
are subject to a foreign postage in addition.
Letters to or from Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, posted wholly lin-
paid or paid, less than one Rate, are detained, and returned to the writers
for postage, but those on which one rate (although not the whole postage)
has been paid by stamps, are forwarded charged with the deficient postage
and a fine of 6d.
Periodicals not of daily publication, issued in the shape of pamphlets,
may be sent to HoUand, the United States, California, and Oregon at the
following Rate, %vMcli must he prepaid: not exceeding 2 oz.. Id; 2 oz., and
not exceeding 3 oz., 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 ; and at the same Rate of Postage, pamphlets,
even though they are not periodicals, may be sent to the United States,
California, and Oregon, if not exceeding 8 oz. This is only the British
Postage, a further sum being charged on delivery. Other printed books to
those places are liable to Letter Rate of postage. There must be no writing
unon such pamphlets, except the names and addresses of the persons to
whom they are sent.
Warm Climates. — The practice of Sealing Letters passing to and from
the East and West Indies, and other Warm Climates, with wax (except such
as is specially prepared) is attended with much inconvenience, and frequent-
ly with serious injury to the Letters, in consequence of the melting of the
wax, and adhesion of the Letters to each other; the public are therefore
recommended, in rll cases, to use wafers in preference to wax in securing
their Letters sent to India, or other warm climates and also to advise their
correspondents tii those countries to pursue the same course.