POSTAL RATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1932, Page 11

POSTAL RATES.

NEW SCALE ANNOUNCED.

OPERATIVE FROM WEDNESDAY*

Penny letter postage will come into effect on Wednesday next, as also will the other amended rates. There is no reduction in newspaper rates or in overseas rates for packets. The new schedule, with the present rates in parentheses, is as follows: — Letters nad Letter-cards.—-Inlands Id for the first ounce and Jd for each additional ounce (2d for the first ounce and Id for each additional ounce). British Empire, United States and countries to which the Postal Union raif of 2Jd docs not apply: Id for the first ounce and Id for each additional ounce (2d for the first ounce and Id for each additional ounce). Postcards.—lnland: Single, 4d (Id); reply. Id (2d). All other places: Single, Id (Id) ; reply, 2d (2d). Late Fee.—ld (2d). Registration Fee. —For any place: 3d (4d). Packets (comprising commercial papers, books and printed papers, pattern and sample packets and unregistered magazines). —Inland:.id for each 2oz up to 21b and 2d for each additional lib up to 51b (Id for each 4oz tip to lib and 4d for each additional lib up to Clb). All other places: No change. "Householder" Circuit.rs.—No change. Registered Magazines.—lnland: Id for each Boz (2d for each Soz). Insurance.—lnland and overseas: No change. Parcels.—lnland—Not exceeding lib, 6d; for each additional lib up to 101b, 2d; for each additional lib up to 141b, Id (Gd per lib for the first 21b and 3d per lib thereafter up to 111b). Parcels (except those containing fishing rods, golf clubs and parcels not exceeding lin in thickness, etc.) exceeding 4ft in length and girth combined, but not exceeding 111b in weight: 2/1. Parcels of fishing rods and golf clubs exceeding 3ft Cin but not exceeding 4ft Gin in length: Up to 31b in weight, 2/; for each additional lib up to lllli, 3d. Maximum weight: 141b (111b). Maximum dimensions: Gft length and girth combined (same). Fragile Fees.—l/ and 1/G (1/ and 1/6). Newspaper rates, which were amended subsequent to the all-round postal increases imposed on March 1, 1931, are unaltered. Prior to that date the inland rate was I'd each copy, and this was increased on March 1, 1931. to Id for each Soz. The rate for dispatch to overseas British possessions was increased from Id each copy to Id for each Goz* Three weeks later "the inland rate was reduced to Id for IGoz, and two weeks after that adjustment it was announced that the same rate would apply to newspapers posted to most Britsh Empire countries. In September Inst further alterations were made in the scale of newspaper charges, the following schedule, which will not be altered on June 1, coming into force:— Inland: Each copy not exceeding 3oz id; each copy exceeding 3oz, Id for each' IGoz. Australia, Canada, Great Britain and Empire countries to which the Postal Union rates do not apply Id f or each IGoz; all other places (Postal Union rates) i Jd for each 2oz.