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also be 4d; and if the postage amount to 8d, the fee is 8d also.
Newspapers and book-packets can be registered to the Colonies
by the prepayment of the fee of sixpence in addition to the
ordinary postage ; but to Foreign countries no packet can be re-
gistered except on payment of the letter rates of postage.
PREPAYMENT.
Letters addressed to places abroad may be prepaid in this
country either in money or stamps, though not partly in one and
partly in the other, but such payment must be wholly in stamps
or wholly in money. Book-packets must always be prepaid, and
with stamps. Newspapers also must always be prepaid, though
the payment may be either in stamps or money. The only ad-
mitted evidence of the prepayment of a letter, &c., inwards, is the
mark agreed upon with the particular foreign country or
colony ; except in the case of letters posted at Malta, Gibraltar,
or Constantinople. Naval officers and seamen also serving
abroad are allowed to prepay such of their letters as are con-
veyed in their ship's bag, with English postage stamps. "When
prepayment is optional any outward letter (that is, a letter
posted within the United Kingdom, and addressed to some place
out of it) posted with an insufficient number of stamps is charged
with the deficient postage in addition ; unless the letter have to
go to a country through France, Holland, or the United States,
in which case it is treated as wholly unpaid, the postal conven-
tions with the latter countries not allowing the recognition of
partial prepayment. When prepayment, however, is compulsory,
a letter or aught else posted with an insufficient number of
stamps is sent (by the first post) to the Returned Letter Office.
Unpaid letters addressed to or received from places in Turkey,
Egypt, and Syria, at which France maintains Post Offices, will,
on delivery, be charged a rate of 9d per ^ oz., instead of 6d
the prepaid rate.
THE MONEY ORDER OFFICE
is open every week-day, fast-days excepted, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The charge for such Orders is 3d on sums not exceeding two
pounds, and 6d on sums between two and five pounds. No
Order will be given for sums beyond this amount; but if the
sum to be transmitted exceeds five pounds, as many Orders may
be taken out as will make up the sum to be sent.'
The public are recommended, when applying for Money
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