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890 COUNTY DIRECTORY OF SCOTLAND.
Mails for the Orkney Islands.
6. The mails are despatched daily (excepting Sundays) from Thurso in Caithness at 10 a.m., I
returning from Stromness at 5.30 a.m., and Kirkwall (Scapa) at 7 a.m. The despatch from
Stromness is at 4 p.m. and from Thurso at 8.30 p.m. during the months of May, June, July, and
August.
Mails for the Shetland Islands.
7. Mails to and from the Shetland Islands are conveyed from Aberdeen every Monday
and Friday evening, arriving at Lerwick on "Wednesday and Sunday mornings ; and return-
ing from Lerwick to Aberdeen every Monday and Wednesday at 6 and 10 p.m. alternately.
There is a third weekly mail leaving Aberdeen on Wednesday evening, and returning from Shet-
land on Friday at 6 and 10 p.m. alternately during the summer months from May to September, j
Mails for Shye and the Hebrides.
8. The Skye mails are conveyed daily (Sundays excepted) by steamer from the railway
terminus at Strome Ferry, six days a week during the months of July, August, and September,
and three days a week during the remainder of the year ; they are forwarded by mail cart from
Strome Ferry on the other three days. The mails for the Long. Maud are. conveyed between
Dunvegan (Skye) and Lochmaddy (North Uist) by sailing packet daily (Sundays excepted)
throughout the year.
Mails to and from the Island of Lewis are conveyed between Ullapool and Stornoway
five days a week from 1st April to 30th June, six days a week from 1st, July to 30th September,
and three days a week during the remainder of the year. The excepted days in summer are
Sunday and Tuesday. In winter the steamer leaves Stornoway on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday mornings, arriving at Ullapool in time for despatch of London mail, and leaves Ullapool
for Stornoway on the same mornings at 10.30.
III.— RATES OF POSTAGE, AND CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION.
Inland Letters.
9. The rates of postage to be prepaid are as follows, viz. :
For a letter not exceeding 1 oz.
,, exceeding 1 oz. but not exceeding
„ ,, 2 oz.
,, ,, 4 oz.
,, ,, 6 oz.
,, ,, 8 oz.
„ ,, 10 oz.
A letter exceeding the weight of 12 oz. is liable to a postage of a 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 letter posted
insufficiently prepaid is chargeable with double the deficiency. On re-directed letters the charge
for re-direction (an additional postage at the prepaid rate) is the same whether prepaid or collected
on delivery.
No letter may exceed the dimensions of 18 inches in length, 9 inches in width, or 6 inches
in depth.
Colonial and Foreign Letters.
10. For the rates on these letters, reference is recommended to be made to the Post Office
Guide, published quarterly by command of the Postmaster-General, price 6d.
Newspapers.
11. All newspapers registered at the General Post Office, London, printed and published in
the United Kingdom, at intervals not exceeding seven days, may be sent by post, singly
or in a pa,cket, within the United Kingdom, for a postage of one halfpenny for each newspaper,
prepaid either by an adhesive stamp or by the use of a stamped wrapper. A packet containing
two or more registered newspapers is not chargeable with a higher rate of postage than that
chargeable on a book packet of the same weight. A newspaper posted unpaid, and a packet
of newspapers posted either unpaid or insufficiently paid, will be charged with the unpaid
rate applicable to book packets. The title and date of publication must be printed at the top
of every page (including supplements, tables of contents, etc.), and the newspaper must be folded
in such a manner that the title may be readily inspected. It must either have no cover, or be in a j
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2 oz.
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4 oz.
2d.
6 oz.
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8 oz.
3d.
10 oz.
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