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APPENDIX.
2. A letter posted unpaid is chargeable on delivery with double
postage ; if insufficiently paid, with double the deficiency.
3. No letter may exceed 18 inches in length, 9 in width, or 6 in
depth, unless it be sent to or from a Government Office.
Newspapers.
1. The prepaid postage on every registered inland newspaper,
whether posted singly or with others in a packet, is one halfpenny; but
a packet containing two or more registered newspapers is not chargeable
with a higher rate Lhan would be chargeable on a book packet of the
same weight. P'or each transmission a fresh postage must be paid.
2. A newspaper or a packet of newspapers posted unpaid is charge-
able on delivery with double postage; if insufficiently paid, with double
the deficiency.
3. Any publication fulfilling certain conditions (which may be
ascertained at any Post Office) can, upon payment of an annual fee of
5s, be registered at the General Post Office for circulation within the
United Kingdom as a newspaper.
4. All publications not so registered are treated as book packets,
and are subject to the rates and regulations of the book post.
5. Every newspaper should be so folded and covered (if posted in a
cover) as to permit the title to be readily inspected.
6. Every newspaper or packet of newspapers must be posted either
without a cover or in a cover open at both ends, and so that the same
can easily be removed for the purpose of examination.
7. No newspaper and no cover of a newspaper may bear anything
(not being part of the newspaper) except the names and addresses of
the sender and the addressee, the title of the newspaper, and a reference
to any page of, or place in, the newspaper to which the attention of
the addressee is directed.
8. No unregistered publication and no article (not being part of the
newspaper or a supplement thereto) may be posted in, or in the same
cover with, the newspaper.
9. Any newspaper or packet of newspapers in the case of which
any of the three last-mentioned rules is infringed is chargeable as a book
packet, if admissible as such. If not admissible as such and under
8 oz. in weight, it is chargeable as a letter packet ; if over 8 oz., it is
transferred to the Parcel Post and charged a fine of id in addition to
any deficient parcel postage.
10. A packet of newspapers must not weigh above 14 lbs., or exceed
two feet in length, or one foot in width or depth.
Book Post.
1. The prepaid postage of a book packet is one halfpenny for every
2 oz. or part of 2 oz. If it be posted unpaid the charge is double that
amount ; if partly paid, double the deficiency.
2. The expression " book packet" means a packet which contains
one or more of" the following articles or documents, that is to say : —
{a) Any matter wholly printed on paper or some substance
ordinarily used for printing.