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280 POSTAGE DIRECTORY.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
The prepayment of postage is optional to many parts abroad, Foreign as -well as
Colonial. For information on this point, reference may be made to the List of Foreign
Places, commencing at page 287.
Letters for the Colonies and Foreign Countries posted unpaid, although specially
addressed to be forwarded by routes which require the postage to be paid in advance,
will not, if there are any means of transmitting them, be opened and returned to the
writers for payment of such postage, but will be despatched if possible by other routes
unpaid.
WEIGHT OF LETTERS.
Letters being now charged by weight in this country, as well as abroad, the British
scale of progression is as follows : — -
Not exceeding | oz., one Rate.
Do. do. 1 oz., two Rates.
And two Rates for every succeeding oz.
The French and Belgian scale of progression is as follows : —
Under \ oz., one Rate.
Weighing ^ oz., under \ oz., two Rates.
And one Rate for every succeeding \ oz.
In charging the British and Foreign combined rates, it is to be observed, that a letter
will be liable to two Foreign rates if it reaches the \ oz. (the single rate being under
that weight), whereas two British rates are not chargeable unless the letter exceeds
a 4 oz. (the limit for a single British rate); so that a letter, to be subject to a single
Foreign rate, as well as British, must be under a \ oz. The following shews the
method of taking the postage on letters for France and Belgium : —
! British, Os. 5d. \ I British, Os. 5d.
„ ( under i of j Foreign, Os. 5d. f reaching i of ) Foreign, Os. lOd.
r RANCB, I ^jj ounce. ) ( an ounce. )
( Os. lOd. ) ( Is. 3d.
{ British, Os. 4d. \ ( British, Os. 4d.
under J of ) Foreign, Os. 2d. f reaching i of ) Foreign, Os. 4d.
Belgium, ,
' ' an ounce. ) I an ounce.
Os. .6d. ; ( Os. 8d,
SHIP LETTERS.
The rates of postage on " Ship," as on other letters, are ta'ken hf weight. The
single uniform rate on ship letters between the United Kingdom and any place beyoni
seas (except those for France, Belgium, Holland, Hamburg, Bremen, Brunswick,
Hanover, Denmark, Oldenburg, Lubeck, and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, to which places the
rate is the same as by packet), when conveyed by private ship, is 8d. under the 4 oz.,
Is. 4d. under 1 oz., 2s. 8d. under 2 oz., and so on, in whatever part of the United
Kingdom the same may be posted or delivered. Letters intended to be conveyed by
"private ship" should be so addressed.
PERSONS EXEMPT FROM SHIP LETTER POSTAGE.
The Owners, Chaeteeers, or Consignees (resident in the United Kingdom), and
the Owners, Consignees, and Shippers of Goods on board Vessels inward bound, are
entit'ed to receive their Letters free from Sea Postage, to the extent collectively o;
Six ounces in Weight, by any One Vessel to any One such Person. In the case o''
Vessels coming from Ceylon, the Mauritius, the East Indies, or the Cape of Good
Hope, for an Owner, Charterer, or Consignee of such Vessel, the letters may be
collectively Twenty ounces in weight. The Owner, Charterer, or Consignee must bi
described as such on the address and superscription; and in the case of Owners.,