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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
liable to customs duty, with the exception of gold
and specie, in Cyprus ; gold, silver, and diamonds
in Grenada ; and diamonds in Jamaica.
In the Dutch East Indies articles of value are
admissible, except wrought gold and silver, but the
packets containing them must be registered.
Special prohibitions in Italy and United States
of America. — Anything relating to foreign lotteries.
In the Cape of Good Hope and Queensland. —
Jewellery and precious articles, if dutiable, are
liable to detention until the duty is paid.
In Spain and Victoria. — Jewellery is dutiable,
and liable to confiscation.
.Russia. — Printed matter in the Russian language
is prohibited; and even such trifling articles as
photographs and Christmas cards are liable to duty,
though a single photograph may be sent to Russia
by post. All letters or packets containing prohibited
or dutiable articles of any kind, however small the
value, are confiscated in that country.
Letters for Passengers on Board Mail Packets.
1. Letters for passengers on board the packets for
America calling at Queenstown, the packets for
Canada calling at Londonderry, the packets for the
Cape, &c, and the Royal Mail Companies packets
for Brazil, &c, calling at Lisbon, the Peninsular
and Oriental packets from Brindisi with the mails
for Egypt, India, Australia, China, &c. , and the Orient
packets from Naples with the mails for Australia,
may be posted in any part of the United Kingdom
up to the time at which ordinary registered letters
to go by the same packets are received. They
must be registered, the postage and registration
fee must be fully prepaid, and they must be
addressed to the care of the Commander of the
packet.
2. The letters should be addressed thus: "Mr.
•, on board the mail packet for , at
Queenstown, Londonderry, Lisbou, Brindisi, or
Naples, care of the Commander of the packet."
Re-direction.
1. Letters, &c, sent to or received from a country
of the Postal Union, and afterwards re-directed
to any place in the United Kingdom, or to another
country within the Union, are not liable to any
additional charge, nor, if registered, to an additional
fee for registration ; such, however, as have been in
the first instance addressed to a place in the country
where they were posted, are chargeable on re-direc-
tion with the same postage, less the sum prepaid,
which would have been charged had they been
addressed in the first instance to the place of their
ultimate delivery, but, if registered, without addi-
tional fee.
2. Letters, &c, addressed from one part of the
United Kingdom to another, and then re-directed to
a country not in the Postal Union, are liable to an
additional Foreign or Colonial rate, and, if registered,
to an additional fee for registration.
3. Letters, &c, received here from a country not
in the Postal Union, and re-directed to another
country not in the Postal Union, are liable to an
additional Foreign or Colonial rate, and, if registered,
to an additional fee: if re-directed to some place
within the United Kingdom, they are liable to an
additional inland rate ; but, if re-directed to any
country of the Postal Union to which the postage
from the country of origin is not higher than to this
country, they are forwarded free of charge, and in
neither case is an additional registration fee required.
4. Letters, &c, received from any country of the
Postal Union, and re-directed to a country not in the
Postal Union, are liable to an additional Foreign or
Colonial rate, and, if registered, to an additional fee.
5. Letters posted for commissioned officers in the
army or navy on actual service are delivered without
any charge for re-direction. The regulations respect-
ing similar letters for non-commissioned officers and
private soldiers and seamen will be found at page 7.
6. No charge for re-direction is made on news-
papers from any place abroad unless they have been
opened, in which case they are liable to postage as
books.
7. Letters, &c, returned to the senders that they
may rectify or complete the address are not, when
re-posted, treated as re-directed, but as liable to
fresh postage.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PARCEL POST.
Dimensions. — The dimensions allowed are — Accra,
Aden, Antigua, Ascension, Baghdad, Bahamas, Bar-
badoes, Belize, Bermuda, Beyrout, Borneo, British
Bechuanaland, British Guiana, British Honduras,
Burmah, Cape Coast Castle, Cape of Good Hope,
Ceylon, China, Colombia (Republic of), Constantinople,
Costa Rica, Cyprus, Demerara, Dominica, Egypt,
Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Grenada,
Hong Konsr, India, Jamaica, Labuan, Lagos, Leeward
Islands, Malta (via Thames), Mauritius, Montserrat,
Muscat, Natal, Nevis, Newfoundland, New South
Wales, New Zealand, North Borneo, Orange Free
State, Panama, Quittah, St. Croix, St. Helena, St.
John, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent,
Sarawak. Seychelles, Siam, Sierra Leone, Smyrna,
South Australia, Straits Settlements, Tangier, Tas-
mania, Tobago, Tortola, Transvaal, Trinidad, Tristan
D'Acunha, Turk's Island, Victoria, Western Australia,
Zanzibar — greatest length 3 feet 6 inches, greatest
length and girth combined 6 feet ; Amboyna, Austria-
Huugary, Azores (by Lisbon), Batavia, Belgium, Bos-
nia, Bulgaria, Cameroons, Denmark, Faroe Islands,
Finland, France, Germany, Heligoland, Herzegovina,
Holland, Iceland, Java, Little Popo, Lome, Luxem-
burg, Madeira (via Lisbon), Monaco, Morocco, Nether-
lands, Norway, Novi-Bazar, . Padang, Philippopolis,
Portugal (by sea), Roumania, Samoa, Servia, Sweden,
Switzerland, and Tonga, not exceeding 2 feet in any
direction ; Adrianople, Algeria, Annam, Argentine
Republic, Azores (by France), Candia, Cayenne, Chili,
Cochin China, Congo Free State, Corsica, Diego Suarez,
French Congo, French Guiana, Gaboon, Grand
Bassam, Greece, Guadaloupe, Italy, Janina, Jeru-
salem, Madagascar, Madeira (via France), Malta
(via France), Martinique, Mayotte, Mexico, Mytilene,
New Caledonia, Nossi-Be, Obock, Portugal (via
France), Reunion, Rhodes, St. Marie de Madagascar,
Salonica, Sardinia, Senegal, Sicily, Spain, Tahiti,
Tonquin, Trebizond, Tripoli, Tripoli (Syria), Tunis,
Turkey (ex. Constantinople, Smyrna, and Beyrout),
Uruguay, greatest length 2 feet, greatest length and
girth combined 4 feet; Canada — greatest length 2
feet, greatest girth 1 foot.
Note. — To Belgium, France, Holland, Luxemburg,
Sweden, aud Switzerland, parcels slightly longer
than 2 feet are admitted if their other dimensions
are small.