Towns > Greenock > 1847-1912 - Post-office Greenock directory > 1895-1896

APPENDIX.
Letter Cards are sold at the following prices : —
• iid. | 3, • 3H I 5, • 5fd- |
. 2jd. 4, . 4|d. 6, . 6|d.
9s per parcel of 96.
Newspaper Wrappers are sold at the following prices
8d.
9 d.
Bearing Halfpenny Stamp.
Bearing Penny Stamp.
I,
id.
14, . 8d.
1, .
i£d.
8, . 8|d.
2,
iid.
21, . IS.
2, .
2jd.
16, . is 5d.
3,
i£d.
and so on at the
3>
3id.
24, . 2S iAd.
4,
aid.
rate of 4d for
4, ■
4id.
and so on at the
5,
3d-
every complete 7.
5, ■
51*
rate of 8id for
6,
3*d.
6, .
6Jd.
every complete 8,
7,
4 d.
7, ■
7id.
X
£l 2S iod
per parcel of 480.
£1
is 3d pe
r parcel of 240.
Uncut sheets of Wrappers, impressed with halfpenny postage stamps,
can be obtained at any Post Office by giving two or three days' notice.
They are sold only in quarter reams of 120 sheets ; each sheet containing
14 wrappers, and the price per quarter ream is £3 18s.
Inland Post Cards are sold at the following prices : — Stout Cards —
1, fd ; 2, ijd ; 3, 2d ; 4, 2M ; 5, 3d ; 6, 3fd ; 7, 4^d ; 8, 5d ; 9, 5*d ;
10, 6d ; 5s per parcel of 100. Thin Cards — 1, f d ; 2, i£d ; 3, ifd ;
4, 2|d ; 5, 2|d ; 6, 3^d ; 7, 4c! ; 8, 43d ; 9, 5d ; 10, 5-Jd ; lis per parcel
of 240.
Uncut sheets of these Cards can be obtained at any Post Office by
giving two or three days' notice. They are sold only in quarter reams
of 120 sheets ; each sheet containing 42 cards, and the prices are
^12 6s per quarter ream for stout cards, and £\i 8s for thin cards.
Reply Stout Cards — 1, i|d ; 2, 2^d ; 3, 3§d ; 4, 5c! ; 5, 6d ; 6, 7^d ;
7, 8|d; 8, 9fd; 9, nd; 10, is; 5s per parcel of 50. Reply Thin
Cards— I, i£d ; 2, 2^d ; 3, 3^!; 4, 4^d ; 5, 5^d ; 6, 6|d ; 7, 7fd ;.
8, 9d ; 9, iod ; 10, nd ; us per parcel of 120.
The Reply Cards are not sold in sheets like the Single Cards.
Inland Revenue Stamps.
Adhesive Postage and Revenue Stamps may now be used for the
purpose of denoting the stamp duties chargeable on the following
documents : —
Agreements under hand only, where liable to the fixed duty of 6d.
Bills of Exchange (including cheques) for the payment of money on
demand (duty id).
Certified copies of, or extracts from, registers of births, &c. (duty id).
Charter-parties (duty 6d).
Contract notes, advising the sale or purchase of any stock or mar-
ketable security of a less value than ,£100 (duty id).
Delivery orders (duty id).
Lease or tack, or agreement, for a lease or tack, for any definite
term less than a year,
(a) of a dwelling-house, or part of a dwelling-house, at a rent
not exceeding the rate of ^10 a year (duty id).
(b) of a furnished dwelling-house, or apartments (duties, 6d,
is, is 6d, 2s, and 2s 6d, according to the rent).