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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
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or packet boats, sailing or passing coastwise, or
otherwise between places within Great Britain or
Ireland, or between, to, or from ports within Her
Majesty's dominions or territories out of the United
Kingdem, or their servants or agents, except in
respect of letters of merchants, owners of ships, or
goods on board.
3rd. Passengers or other persons on board any
such shipSjVessels, steam-boats, passage or packet boat.
4th. The owners of or sailors or others on board a
ship or boat passing on a river or navigable canal
within the United Kingdom or other Her Majesty's
dominions.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MAILS.
Foreign and Colonial Letters.
The rate of postas^e to be prepaid in the United
Kingdom on letters for all places abroad is i^d per
half ounce, but it does not follow that the same rate
of postage is in force from foreign countries to this
country.
Letters posted unpaid, or insufficiently prepaid,
for any country to which prepayment is compulsory,
are returned to the writers.
Unpaid letters to or from places abroad are
charged double the prepaid rate, and those partially
prepaid are charged with double the deficiency.
Routes. — Letters not specially directed to go by
a particular route are forwarded by the first mail
despatched.
No letter for a Colony or Foreign Country may
exceed 2 feet in length or 1 foot in width or depth.
The addresses of letters for Eussia should be
very plainly written ; the name of the town, and of
the province in which it is situated, should also be
added in English, French, or German,
Foreign and Colonial Book and News-paper Post.
Articles which may be sent to places abroad
under the Book Post Piegulations consist of two
classes, as follows: —
1st. Commercial Papers, imder which are comprised
all papers or documents written or drawn wholly or
partly bj hand (except letters or communications in
the nature of letters, or other papers or documents
having the character of an actual and personal cor-
respondence J, documents of legal procedure. Deeds
drawn up by public functionaries, copies of or extracts
from Deeds under private seal (and whether written
or printed on stamped or unstamped paper). Way
Bills, Bills of Lading, Invoices, and other documents
of a mercantile character, documents of Insurance and
other public Companies, all kinds of manuscript
Music, the manuscript of Books and other literary
works, and other papers of a similar description.
2nd. Printed Papers, including newspapers, perio-
dical works, books (stitched or bound), pamphlets,
sheets of music (printed), visiting cards, address cards,
proofs of printing (with or withont the manuscript re-
lating thereto), engravings, photographs, pictures,
drawings, papers impressed for the use of the blind, or
cardboard drawing models stamped in relief, plans,
maps, catalogues, prospectuses, announcements, and
notices of various kinds, whether printed, engraved,
'lithographed, or autographed and in general all im-
pressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment,
or card-board by means of printing, lithography, auto-
graphy, or any other mechanical process easy to recog-
nise, except the copying press and the typewriter, and
anything usually attached or appurtenant to any of the
before-mentioned articles in the way of binding, mount-
ing, or otherwise, and anythmg convenient for their
sate transmission by post which shall be contained
in the ssirrie packet; also printed, engraved, or litho-
graphed circulars, notwithstanding that such circulars
may be letters or communications in the nature of a
letter. On printed visiting cards the address or title
of the sender, or conventional initials such as "p.p.c."
may be written ; and on printed circulars manuscript
corrections and insertions may be made as to names
of commercial travellers, dates of their journey, and
the place, date, and object of meetings, Printers'
proofs may be corrected in manuscript, as may also
figures in prices current, st«ck and share lists, &c.
Books, papers, music, photographs, and engravings
may have a dedication inscribed on them, and the
invoice relating to them may be enclosed. Stamps
for pri'payment, whether obliterated or not, and all
printed articles constituting the sign of monetary
value, are, however, excluded from transmission by
Book Post to countries of the Postal Union.
The two classes are subject to the same rates of
postage, except that the minimum charge fi:r a packet
of Commercial papers, however small the weight, is
2jd. in every case. If there be any mixture of the
two in the same packet the whole packet is treated
as commercial papers.
Commercial papers and printed papers may be posted
eitlier without a cover (iu which case it must not be
fastened, whether by means ofgum, wafer, pealing wax,
postage stamp, or otherwise), or in an ordinary letter
envelope left wholly unfastened, or in a cover open at
both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily
withdrawn for examination. For the greater security
of the contents, however, the packets may be tied at
the ends with string, but the string must be easy to
unfasten.
Circulars which are in other respects admissible,
hut which are printed or lithographed in characters
resembling those of the typewriter, or are produced
by means of any mechanical process fi-om type-written
originals, will be admitted to the privilege of the
book rate, provided that they are posted by being
handed in at the counter of some Head Post Office
or District or Branch Post Office, that special atten-
tion is called to their natui'e, and that at least tivenfg
copies pi-ecisely identical are posted at the same time.
Dimensions. — The limits of size for a packet
addressed to couiitries of the Postal Union are 18
inches in length and one foot in width or dei th, unless
they are in the form of a roll, in which case the
limits of size will be 30 inches in length and 4 inches
in diameter, and for packets addressed to other places
abroad 24 inches in length and 12 inches in width or
depth. Limits of weigiit are, 4 lbs to countries or
the Postal Union, and 6 lbs. for other countries.
Bates of Postage. — The rates of postage, which
must be prepaid, on packets to places abroad, are givea
at page 14.
All books and printed matter imported into the
United States through the post, however small the
value, are subject to a duty of 25 per cent, of that
value. The undermentioned articles are still exempt
from Customs duties: — 1st. Newspapers and perio-
dicals already exempt from duty ; 2nd. Photo-
graphs and printed papers, other than books, re-
ceived in the United States in such small quantities