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APPENDIX.
When letters, &c, or parcels, directed to a Post Office for persons
who reside within an official delivery, but who have no private box,
arrive by a mail for which there is a delivery from house to house, a
Postmaster may refuse to deliver them at the window, and may send
them out by the Postmen ; except such as are addressed to the military
in barracks.
Addresses and Petitions to Queen and Parliament.
Petitions and Addresses forwarded to the Queen are exempt from
postage. Members of either House of Parliament may also receive by
post Petitions and Addresses to Her Majesty, and petitions addressed
to either House of Parliament, not exceeding 2 lbs. in weight, exempt
from postage, provided such petitions and addresses be sent without
covers, or in covers open at the ends.
Parliamentary Proceedings.
Printed Votes or Proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, in open
covers, having the words " Parliamentary Proceedings" written or
printed thereon, are allowed to exceed the limits of size and weight
prescribed for book packets ; and, even if wholly or partly unpaid, they
are liable only to the prepaid book rate of ^d for every 2 ozs.
POST CARDS.
Official Post Cards, impressed with halfpenny stamp ; double or
Reply Post Cards, impressed with halfpenny stamp on each portion of
.them, and private Cards, embossed at the office of the Inland Revenue
with halfpenny stamps, may be transmitted between places in the United
Kingdom with letters printed or written upon the back. Adhesive
stamps are not accepted in payment of the postage.
The front (or stamped) side is for the address only, in addition to
the printed words "Post Card" and "The address only to be written
on this side." There must be nothing else written, printed, or other-
wise impressed on it, nor must there be any writing or printing across
the stamp. On the reverse side any communication, whether of the
nature of a letter or otherwise, may be written or printed. Nothing
whatever may be attached, except adhesive stamps in payment of
additional postage or stamp duty, nor may the card be folded, cut, or
otherwise altered. If any one of these rules be infringed, the card
will be charged id on delivery.
When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, &c,
the transmission or delivery of the letters would be delayed if the whole
mail were dealt with without distinction, Post Cards (unless paid for
and posted as late letters) may be kept back until the next despatch or
delivery.
No Card other than one of those issued by the Government, or a
private Card embossed with a halfpenny stamp at the Office of Inland
Revenue, Somerset House, or at the Stamp Offices at Liverpool and
Newcastle-on-Tyne, will pass under a halfpenny stamp, if it bear on it
a communication of the nature of a letter (unless it be a circular letter.)