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966 COUNTY DIRECTOllY OF SCOTLAND.
redirection. Prepayment for the redirection of a parcel is compulsory only when the parcel has
been delivered as addressed.
To facilitate the return of parcels which cannot be delivered, the name and address of the
sender should appear on the outside of every parcel.
Rural postmen are required to accept parcels from the public for despatch wherever they
collect letters.
The Postmaster- General has power to delay parcels when it is necessary to do so, in order to
secure the due despatch of the Letter Mails, or when it is expedient for the safety and protection
of the Parcel Mails.
All applications relating to delayed, damaged, or charged parcels, should be addressed to the
Surveyor-General, General Post Office, Edinburgh, and must, if possible, be accompanied by the
wrapper of parcel referred to.
Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post.
15. For the rates, etc., on parcels for abroad, reference should be made to the Post Offic^e.
Guide, which may be seen at any post office in the United Kingdom.
Colonial and Foreign Pattern and Sample Post.
16. The pattern and sample post is restricted to bona fide trade patterns or samples of
inerchandise, and no article liable to custom duties can be sent as a sample or pattern. Goods
sent for sale, or in execution of an order (however small the quantity may be), or any articles
sent by one private individual to another, which are not actually patterns or samples, are not
admissible.
Patterns or samples, when practicable, miist be sent in covers open at the ends, so as to be
easy of examination.
IPost Cards.
17. Post Cards, which bear a halfpenny impressed stamp, are available for transmission
between jdaces in the United Kingdom.
Nothing is allowed to be written or printed on the front (or stamped) side MU the address.
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 ; nor may the card be folded, cut, or
otherwise altered. If any of these rules be infringed, the card will be charged Id. on delivery.
Poreign post cards may be sent to all countries comprised in the Postal Union.
Postage Stavips^ Wrappers, and Envelopes.
18. Postage labels (which are available for the prepayment of parcels and telegrams) arc
issued of the respective values of id., Id. {postage and inland revenue), lid., 2d., 2gd., 3d., 4d.,
5d., 6d., 9d., Is., 2s. 6d., 5s., 10s., and £1.
Stamped envelopes are of three sorts, and are sold at 2s. 2d. and 2s. 4d. per packet of twent}'-
four. The ' Commercial ' envelope may be had in packets of two hundred and forty for 21s.
Newspaper wrappers, bearing impressed halfpenny and penny stamps, are sold in packets of
six for 3|d. and 6|d. respectively.
It is no longer legal to use for postage any embossed or impressed stamp, cut out or' other-
wise separated from any cover, paper, or card on which it was embossed. Postage stamps are
permitted to be purchased from the public at the various money order offices throughout the
country, at a charge of 2| per cent., but no single stamps can be purchased ; they must, in all
cases, be presented in strips of at least two stamps adhering to each other.
IV.— REGISTRATION
19. By the prepayment of a fee of twopence, an}' letter, newspaper, or book packet may be
registered to any place in the United Kingdom.
Registered letters must be prepaid as regards both postage and registration fee.
The registration of a packet makes its transmission much more secure ; and the loss of a
registered packet is a very rare occurrence. By law the Postmaster-General is not responsible
for the safe delivery of registered letters or packets ; but, under certain conditions (for which see
the Post Office Guide), the contents of a registered letter, lost while passing through the post,
will, to the extent of £2, be made good.
Registered letter envelopes of various sizes, cloth lined, bearing a twopenny stamp embossed
on the Map, have been prepared for greater security in the transmissions of notes, coins, etc., and
can be had at any post office.
Every letter to be registered should be presented to an agent of the Post Ofhee, and a receipt