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POSTAL DIRECTORY.
Dundee Post-Office — Post-Office Buildings, Top of Reform Street.
W. K. Bryson, Postmaster.
On "Week Days the Office is ojien for Postal business (including Postal
Orders) from 6.45 a.m. till 9 p.m. (for sale of stamps only, until 11 p.m.) ; and
for Money Order, Savings Bank, Life Insurance, and Annuity business, from
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (for Savings Bank Deposits, till 9 p.m.).
On Sunday the Office is open for Postal business from 9.30 till 10.45 a.m.
only, but the Letter-Box remains open as on other days.
For Telegraph business there is attendance continuously during the day and
night, both on Week Days and Sundays.
Sub-Post Offices. — *Auchterhouse, *Baldovie, *Barry, 183 Blackness road,
*Broughty Ferry, *Carnoustie, *Claverhouse, *Craigton, Dock street, *Down-
field, 28 Dundonald street, 12 Ferry road, *Five-Mile House, *Gauldry,
76 Hawkhill, 128 Hilltown, *Kingennie, 90 King street, *Lochee, *Logie,
*Longforgan, *Lundie, Maryfield, *Monifieth, *Monikie, *Muirdrum, *Mylne-
field, *Newbigging, *Newport, 268 Perth road, 181 Princes street, 142 Scouring-
burn, 27 Strathmartine road, *Strathmartine S.O., *Tayport, *Tealing,
*"W"ellbank, *"VVormit. (Those marked * are suburban offices.)
Inland Rates of Postage— Letters.
Inland letters are those which imss between places in the United Kingdom,
including tlie Isle of Man, the Orkney, Shetland, Scilly, and Channel Islands.
The revised rates of postage, which will come into force on 22nd June 1897,
are as follows, viz. : —
For a weight not exceeding 4 oz., - - - Id.
For each additional 2 oz., - - - - ^d.
A letter posted unpaid is chargeable on delivery vnth double postage ; and
a letter posted insufficiently prepaid is chargeable with double the deficiency.
Petitions and Addresses to the Queen are exempt from postage. Members of
Parliament may also receive by post Petitions and Addresses to Her Majesty,
and Petitions to Parliament, not exceeding 2 lbs. in weight, exempt from
postage, provided such be sent without covers, or in covers open at the ends.
No letter may be above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 12 inches in
depth, unless it be sent to or from one of the Government Offices.
Letter Cards are sold at the rate of 4 for 45d, or 9s per parcel of 96.
Embossed Envelopes bearing a penny stamp are sold at the following rates : —
" A " quality (4| in. by 3^^ in. ), 20 for Is lOd ; "Commercial" quality, 20 forls9d ;
" C" quality (5^ in. by 3 in.), 24 for 2s 2d.
Newspapers.
The prepaid postage on every registered inland newspaper is one halfpenny,
but a packet, containing two or more registered newspapers, is not liable to a
higher rate than the book-postage upon it would be.
Any publication fulfilling the subjoined conditions can, upon payment of an
annual fee of 5s, be registered at the General Post Office for circulation
within the United Kingdom as a newspaper. Unregistered, a newspaper is
liable to the book rate of postage.
a. The publication must consist wholly or in great part of political or
other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other current topics,
vsdth or without advertisements.
It must be printed and published in the United Kingdom ; and in num-
bers at intervals of not more than seven days.
The full title and date of publication must be printed at the top of the
first page, and the whole or part of the title, and the date, at the top of
every subsequent page.
d. A sui)plement must consist wholly or in great part of matter like that