Towns > Greenock > 1847-1912 - Post-office Greenock directory > 1894-1895

APPENDIX.
the counter of some Head Post Office or District or Branch
Post Office, and that at least twenty copies precisely identical are
posted at the same time.]
Expressions referring to writing shall be taken to include type-
writing or any mechanical or other process ordinarily used to
produce a single document.
3. Book packets should be posted either without covers (in which case
they must not be fastened in any way) or in unfastened envelopes or in
covers which can be easily removed for the purposes of examination.
If anything is written or printed on the inside of the covers, the covers
must be left unfastened. It is not forbidden to tie the ends of a book
packet with string, but the string should be easy to unfasten. *_
4. No book packet may exceed 5 lbs. in weight, 18 inches in length,
9 in width, or 6 in depth, unless it be sent to or from a Government
office.
5. A book packet, in the case of which either rule 2 or rule 3 is
infringed, is chargeable, if under 8 oz. in weight, as a letter packet, and
if over 8 oz. it is transferred to the Parcel Post and charged a fine of id,
in addition to any deficient parcel postage. When rule 4 is infringed
the packet is in all cases transferred to the Parcel Post.
6. When, owing to an unusually heavy influx of letters, books,
&c, the transmission or delivery of the letters would be delayed if the
whole mail were dealt with indiscriminately, book packets may be kept
back till the next despatch or delivery.
POST CARDS.
1. Official Post Cards, impressed with a halfpenny stamp— double
or reply Post Cards, impressed with a halfpenny stamp on each portion
of them — and private Cards, impressed at the Office of Inland Revenue
with halfpenny stamps — may be transmitted between places in the United
Kingdom with letters printed or written upon the back.
2. The address, and the sender's name and address, but nothing
else, may be written, printed, or otherwise impressed on the front (or
stamped) side. 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, and a gummed label (not to exceed
2 inches long and £ inch wide) bearing the address at which the card
is to be delivered ; 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.
3. When, owing to an unusually heavy influx of letters, books,
&c, the transmission or delivery of the letters would be delayed if the
whole mail were dealt with indiscriminately, Post Cards (unless paid
for and posted as late letters) may be kept back until the next despatch
or delivery.
The conditions on which private cards are impressed with a half-
penny stamp can be ascertained at the Office of Inland Revenue.
It will be seen from the foregoing rules that there is no legal way of
* In order to secure the return of book packets which cannot be delivered, the
names and addresses of the senders should be printed or written outside, thus —
" From , of ."