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APPENDIX.
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Id
; 2 oz.
14d
4 oz.
2d
6 oz.
2£d
8 oz.
8d
10 oz.
3}d
12 oz.
4d
KATES OF POSTAGE AND CONDITIONS OF
TKANSMISSION.
Inland letters.*
The rates of postage to be prepaid are as follows, t viz. :—
For a letter not exceeding 1 oz. -
,, exceeding 1 oz. but not exceeding
,, n 2 oz. „ j,
»» >♦ * oz * >» »>
,, ,, 6 oz. „ „
„ 8 oz. ., „
ti 10 oz. „ „
A letter exceeding the weight of 12 oz. is liable to a postage of
Id for every ounce, beginning with the first ounce. A letter, for
example, weighing between 14 and 15 ounces must be prepaid
fifteen-pence.
A letter posted unpaid is chargeable on delivery with double
postage : and a letter posted insufficiently prepaid is chargeable
with double the deficiency. On re-directed letters the charge for
re-direction is the same whether prepaid or collected on delivery.
No letter may exceed the dimensions of one foot six inches in
length, nine inches in width, and six inches in depth.
Addresses to the Queen and Petitions to Parliament.
Petitions and addresses to Her Majesty, forwarded direct, are
exempt from postage ; and such petitions and addresses, as also
petitions to either House of Parliament, if sent to a member of
either House, are likewise exempt, provided they do not weigh
more than two pounds, and are either without covers or are in,
covers open at the sides. No letter or other enclosure, however,
must be inserted ; and if one be found, such enclosure, unless it
bear the proper number of postage stamps, will be charged as an
unpaid letter.
Newspapebs.
(I). Inland.
By tbe " Post Office Act, 1870," the use of the Inland Revenue
impressed stamp denoting the stamp duty, under which Newspapers
and other periodicals had been previously transmissible by post
within the United Kingdom, was abolished, and a postage of one
halfpenny was fixed for each transmission of any Newspaper com-
ing within the definition laid down in the Act.
Inland Newspapers are subject to the following regulations: —
1st. To have the privilege of passing as a Newspaper, the publica-
tion must first have been accepted as a Newspaper by the
* Inland Letters are those which pass between places in the United King-
dom, including the Isle of Man, the Orkney, Shetland, Scilly, and Channel
Islands.
t If the weight be exceeded to the smallest extent, even though the balance
be merely turned, the letter becomes liable to a higher postage. The same
rule applies to letters going abroad. To provide, therefore, for errors in
scales, &c, it is well to allow a little margin, or to pay the postage of the
next greater weight.