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POSTAL DIRECTORY.
4. Letters posted unpaid, or insufficiently jaaid, to or from Australia, New
Zealand, Cape Colony, or Natal are charged 6d. each in addition to the defi-
cient postage, and those to or from St. Helena are charged double the defi-
ciency.
The rates of postage for Foreign countries and places not comprised iu the
Postal Union are as follows, viz. : —
Book Packets and
Letters
per
i oz.
News-
papers
per
4 oz.
Patterns.
Ke-
Not
exc.
1 oz.
1 oz. to
2 oz.
2oz.
to
4oz.
Every
addi-
tional
4 oz.
gis-
tra-
tion
Fees.
s. d.
d.
d.
d.
d.
d.
d.
Abjssinia
Africa, W. Coast Native
cO 5
U
Ijd. every 2 oz.
in 2
possessions.
Madagascar, except St.
Mary and Tamatave.
Morocco (ex. Tangier) -
c a 6
fO 8
CO 2i
al
2
all 2 1 3 1 3
2d. per 2 ozs.
Postal Union rate.
m 2
in 4
none
Orange Free State -
6
1
1
2
3
3
2
Sarawak
c « 5
a 1^
ali
n
3
3
in 2
Transvaal (including
Bechuanaland).
8
1^
2
3
5
5
2
Letters, &c., for officers on board ships of war on the Pacific Station (North
or South) are subject to the same rates of postage as ordinary correspondence
for Chili.
Palestine. See Turkey.
* N.B. — (c) denotes that prepayment is compulsory, it being in all other
cases voluntary ; (a) that an additional charge is made on delivery ; (in) that
the registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival ; and
{none) that no registration can be effected.
PARCEL '£0'61~( Inland).
Parcels not exceeding 11 lbs. in weight are received at any Post Office for
transmission between places in the United Kingdom.
In order that a packet may go by Parcel Post, it must be tendered for
transmission as a parcel, and should bear the words " Parcel Post," — which
should be clearly Avritten in the left-hand top corner.
The following are the principal conditions and regulations : —
The size allowed for an Inland Postal Parcel is-
Greatest length . - - -
Greatest length and girth combined
3 ft. 6 in.
6 ft. in.
For example —
A parcel measuring 3 ft. 6 in. in its longest dimension may measure as
much as 2 ft. 6 in. in girth, i.e., round its thickest part; or —
A shorter parcel may be thicker ; thus, if it measure no more than 3 ft.
in length, it may measure as much as 3 ft. iu girth, i.e., round its
thickest part.