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POSTAL DIRECTORY.
(For full information regarding Postal Affairs the official " Post Office Guide "
should be consulted — published quarterly, price 6d.)
Dundee Post-Office— Post-Office Buildings, Meadowside : Branch Office
—Dock street, Customhouse buildings. William Taylor, Postmaster.
On Week Days the Office is open for Postal business (including Postal
I Orders) from 7.0 a.m. till 9 p.m. ; and for Money Order, Old Age Pension,
Savings Bank, Life Insurance, and Annuity business, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., postage on inland letters, parcels, &c, may
I be prepaid at the Head Office in money instead of stamps, provided the
I amount paid be in no case less than ±51.
j On Sunday the Office is open for Postal business from 12.30 p.m. till 1.30
I p.m. only, but the Letter-Box remains open as on other days.
I For Telegraph and Telephone business there is attendance continuously
I during the day and night, both on Week Days and Sundays.
Town Sub-Offices.— 16 Arbroath road, 183 Blackness road, 28 Dundonald
, street, Downfield, Fairmuir (343 Clepington road), 12 Ferry road, 76 Hawk-
I hill, 128 Hilltown, 90 King street, 156 Lochee road, Logie (5 Cobden street),
j Mary field (161 A Albert street), 79 Murraygate, 125a Nethergate, North Church
[street, 268 Perth road, Scouringburn (142 Brook street), South Union street
I (New Hotel Bldgs.), 27 Strathmartine road, 72 Victoria road, West Ferry
|(Broughty Ferry). Country Sub-Offices — *Alyth, Ardler, *Auchterhouse,
jBaldovie, Barry, *Barry Camp, *Broughty Ferry, *Carnoustie, Claverhouse,
I Craigton, *Dykends, *Eassie, *Five-Mile House, *Folda, Gauldry, *Glenisla,
1 *Kilry, Kingennie, *Lochee, *Longforgan, Lundie, *Meigle, *Monifieth,
BMonikie, Muirdrum, *Mylnefield, Newbigging, *Newtyle, *Newport,
[Pvuthven, Strathmartine, *Tayport, *Tealing, AVellbank, *Wormit. (* Tele-
graph Offices.)
Inland Bates of Postage— Letters.
Inland letters are those which pass between places in the United Kingdom,
including the Isle of Man, the Orkney, Shetland, Scilly, and Channel Islands.
The prepaid rate of postage is as follows, viz. : —
For a weight not exceeding 4 oz., - - - Id.
For each additional 2 oz., - - - - ^d.
A letter posted unpaid is chargeable on delivery with double postage ; and
letter posted insufficiently prepaid is chargeable with double the deficiency.
Petitions and Addresses to the King are exempt from postage. Members of
(Parliament may also receive by post Petitions and Addresses to His Majesty,
land Petitions to Parliament, not exceeding 2 lbs. in weight, exempt from
postage, provided such be sent without covers, or in covers open at ends.
I No letter may be above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 12 inches in
fcdepth, unless it be sent to or from one of the Government Offices.
| Books containing eighteen Id stamps and eleven Jd stamps are issued,
tprice 2s.
I Letter Cards are sold at the rate of 4 for 4^d, or 9s per parcel of 96.
1 Embossed Envelopes bearing a penny stamp are sold at the following rates : —
If A " size (4| in. by 3f| in. ), 20 for Is lOd ; ' ' Commercial " size (5^ in. by 3| in. ),
116 for Is 5d.
Inland Post — Newspapers.
I The prepaid postage on every registered inland newspaper (including any
• supplement thereto) is one halfpenny, but a packet, containing two or more