POSTAL RATES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 48, 11 August 1939, Page 3

POSTAL RATES

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS Inland: Id for first ounce or fine, tion thereof and %d for each additional ounce 01 fraction thereof. Inland Air Mail: 2d each ounce. British Empire (except meantime Australia and Dependencies), including Protectorates and Mandated Ter. ritory, also Egypt: iy*d each half ounce or fraction thereof. All other Countries: Postal Union rates for first ounce or fraction thereof, and l%d for each additional ounce or fraction thereof. POSTCARDS Inland: Single xeply Id. All other places: Single Id; reply 2d. Late Fee: Id. PACKETS Comprising commercial papers, books and printed papers pattern and sample packets, and unregistered magazines. Inland: y 2 d for each 2oz or fraction thereof and for each additional 2oz up to Minimum charge 2d All other places (Postal Union Rates), commercial papers: 2i4d for first 10oz or fraction thereof; each additional 2oz or fraction thereof- /i Books and printed papers; %d for each 2oz or fraction thereof. "HOUSEHOLDER'' CIRCULARS Inland: %d for each 2oz (ii.Sd for each 2oz when 250,000 or more post, ed within, twelve months). REGISTERED MAGAZINES Inland: Each copy Id for each Boz or fraction thereof. NEWSPAPERS Inland: Each copy not exceeding Soz, %d; each copy exceeding Boz, Id for each 16oz or fraction thereof. Canada, Great Britain, and most Empire countries: Each "Opy Id for each 16oz or fraction thereof. All othc-r places (Postal Union Rate): %d for each 2oz. II EG 1 ST RATION For any place: 3d. INSURANCE Inland and overseas: No alteration. INLAND PARCELS Not exceeding 31b, 7d; exceeding •ill) and not exceeding 71b, Is 2d; exceeding 71b and. not exceeding llib, Js {Jd; exceeding 111]} and not exceeding 211b, 2- Id; exceeding 2llb and not exceeding '2811), 3->. Special Rate for Certain Parcel*. Parcels more tlian 1 inch in thickness and exceeding Ift Oin in length and girth not exceeding 211'), 2s id; exceeding 211b, bid not exceeding 28lb, 3s (exclusive of ham. per fee, jf payable). Note: Parcels not more than 1 inch in thickness arc charged the ordinary rate, but such parcels must not exceed the maximum measurement <<!' fi tcc t_ length and girth combined. Parcels of fishing rods and golf clubs over 311 (iin but not over a maximum of 4ft (sin in length, o.nd not ovei in diameter, not exceeding 31b, 2s -Id; exceeding 31b but not exceeding 7.'b, 2s lOd: exceeding 2lb, nut not exceeding 1-111") (maximum) 3 s Id including hamper fee. Fs agile Fee-;. An additional fer> of id or Is, according to size, is char.;, cd on parcels sent by "Fragile*' pot.