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POSTAL DIRECTORY. 139
registered newspapers, is not liable to a higher rate than would be chargeable
on a halfpenny packet or a letter of the same weight.
Any publication fulfilling the subjoined conditions can, uj^on 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
treated as any other printed matter.
a. The publication miist consist wholly or in great part of political or
other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other current topics,
with or without advertisements.
b. It must be printed and published in the United Kingdom ; and in num-
bers at intervals of not more than seven days.
c. 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 svipplement must consist wholly or in great part of matter like that
of a newspaper, or of advertisements, printed on a sheet or sheets put
together at some one part of the newspaper whether gummed or stitched
up with the newspaper or not ; or it must consist wholly or in part of
engravings, prints, or lithographs illustrative of articles in tbe pajjer. Tt
must in every case be published with the newspaper, and have the title
of the newspaper printed at the top of every page. The supplement
may not exceed the newspaper itself in bulk.
A newsj)aper, if posted in a cover, must have such cover open at both ends^
to admit of easy examination, and so folded that the title may be readily
inspected. The cover must not bear anything except the name and address of
sender and addressee, with index or reference numbers or letters, the words
"with compliments," a request for return in case of non-delivery, the title of
[the newspaper, and a reference to any place in the newspaper to which the
(attention of the addressee is directed.
I A newspaper must not contain any unregistered publication or any enclosure
iof any kind, except a supplement relative to such newspaper.
[! A packet of newspapers must not weigh above 5 lbs., or exceed two feet in
length, one foot in width, or one in depth.
Newspaper wrappers are sold at the following prices : — Bearing halfpenny
stamp, at the rate of 7 for 4d or 5s S^d per parcel of 120 ; bearing penny
jistamp, at the rate of 8 for S^d or 3s 6Jd per parcel of 40.
Inland Post — Halfpenny Packets.
The Halfpenny Packet Post can be used only for packets not exceeding
oz. in weight.
Printed or written matter not in the nature of a letter, and printed or
written on paper or some substance ordinarily used for piinting or writing,
mav be transmitted by the halfpenny post. The following documents may
also be sent : —
Commercial or business papers of a formal character, namely, invoices,
orders for goods or for work to be done, confirmations of orders, advice
notes of the despatch or receipt of letters, documents, goods, or money
(with or without instructions for their further treatment), waybills,
bills of lading, receipts for goods or money, statements of account,
price lists, prices current, market reports, delivery and shipping notes,
tenders for goods or advertisements, estimates for work to be done,
quotations for goods, inquiries for quotations, contract notes, confirm-
ations of contracts, share transfer notices, and such other similar
documents as the Postmaster-General may from time to time prescribe.
Notices of assessments and applications for payment of rates issued by
officers employed in the collection of rates. Notices relating to regis-
tration of voters at parliamentary and local government elections.