Postal Regulations.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1359, 7 May 1895, Page 6

Postal Regulations.

IXLANU LETTERS. Letters for places within New Zealand, insufficiently prepaid, are forwarded, charged with double the deficiency, Jjdle Letters, whether posted at the Post Cilice, on board steamers, or in railway vans, must bear the full postage and late fee. If posted unpaid, or insufficiently prepaid, ihev will not be despatched from the Tost Office till the next mail ; but if posted on board steamers or in the railway vans, they will be charged, on delivery, with double the deficient postage, or late lee. The Late fee is a single rate extra to places nutsi.ie Ntjff Zealand. Within New Zealand the late fee is Id. POST CARDS. Penny post cards and reply-paid post cards for transmission between places in Now Zealand and the Australian colonies and Tasmania, may be purchased at any Post Office, or from any licensed stamp vendor. By affixing an additional penny stamp, they may be used for the United Kingdom via San Francisco or by the direct route. The stamped side of the card is for the address only, and, beyond the written or printed address, nothing whatever must be printed or written upon that side of the card. On the reverse side, any communication, whether of the nature of a letter or otherwise, may be printed or written. Nothing whatever may fie attached to the card, nor may it he folded, cut, or otherwise altered. Post cards may be used for eccipts, to the back of which a receipt tamp may be affixed. NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS. The postage on newspapers for places beyond the colony is id per 2oz, except to the United Kingdom and Australian Golonies, to which postage is Id each newspaper, irrespective of weight. Newspaper wrappers, IS for lOd, may be purchased at any Post Office, or from any licensed vendor. The wrappers are for newspapers intended to be sent through the post for places within New Zealand ; hut they may also be used for forwarding newspapers to places beyond the colony ; on prepayment of the additional postage. INLAND POST. Book, Packet, and Circular Post.—The postage is on each circular not exceeding i<>2 id. not exceeding 4 ox Id, and H lor every additional 2oz,'

A circular is held to lie a communication intended for transmission in identical terms to several persons, and the whole or greater part of which is produced by means of ordinary type, engraving, lithograpic or any other mechanical process, and may he posted with or without a cover. If sent without a cover, the address to be written on the face of the circular, aud. if folded, to be folded in such a manner as to admit of its being easily examined (it must not be fastened with any adhesive). If enclosed in a cover or envelope, the cover must be entirely open at one end or side, or the lly of the envelope turned inside instead of gummed over. If posted unpaid, or addressed to any place requiring delivery through a second Post Office (not a suburban office), or otherwise not complying with these regulations, will be sent to the Dead Letter Ulfice. A packet may be sent either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gam, wafer, sealingwax, post-stamp, or otherwise), or in a cover open, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination. For the greater security of the contents, the packet may be tied at the ends with string, but in such ease Postmasters are authorised to cut the string, oven though it he sealed —but if they do so they will again tie up the packet. No packet may contain anything which is sealed or otherwise closed against inspection ; nor must there be any letter, or any communication of the nature of a letter, whether separate or otherwise, unless the whole of such letter or communication be printed. Entries, however, merely stating who sends the book, etc., or to whom it is given, arc admissible. Indeed, as respects the name and address of the sender, not only is the writing permitted, hut it is recommended ; so that if the cover comes off, or for any other reason the packet cannot be forwarded, it may be returned. A book may also contain a manuscript dedication, or a complimentary inscription from the author. Passages in the text to which it is desired to call attention may be marked with a simple stroke. If a packet be posted for delivery within Mew Zealand, so made up that it cannot be opened without tearing the cover or breaking llie seal, or if it contain any letter or any communication of the nature of a letter written in it or upon its cover, whether closed or open, to coin or bank-notes, enclosure or sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, or any unauthorised enclosure, t he packet will be surcharged as simple letter without tine, less the postage

affixed, and forwarded to its address. If addressed to any place beyond New Zealand, they will be detained and scut to the Dead Letter Office for disposal. Any packet posted wholly unpaid, or insufficiently prepaid, will be charged double the deficient postage, if for delivery within New Zealand. Bona fide printed or lithographed matter may be enclosed in envelopes entirely open at one end or side, or having the Jhj turned inside, instead of gummed over in the usual maimer, so that the contents may he examined without cutting or tearing the envelope. FOREIGN BOOK POST, The conditions under which books and printed and written matter may he sent through the post to all places outside New Zealand are in the main the same as under the Inland Look and Packet Post Regulations. Press manuscript may ho transmitted to the United Kingdom and the Australian Colonies. If a packet ho posted not open at the oud or sides, or contain any letter or any communication of the nature of a letter written in it, or upon its cover, whether closed or open, or any enclosure, sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, or any other unauthorised enclosure, it will be scut to the Dead Letter (Alice. If a book packet for the Australian Colonics, India, tins United Kingdom, Canada, and other British-American places, and the United States ot America bo not sufficiently prepaid with stamps, but nevertheless bear stamps of the value of otic rate, it is forwarded charged with the deficient postage. Books and parcels for France if posted wholly unpaid, will be detained ; if shoit paid, they will he, charged double the deficient postage, and forwarded. NEWSPAPERS. Kates of Postage—£d each within the colony, and £d per 2oz outside the colony, except to the Australian colonies and United Kingdom, to which postage is Id each newspaper. All newspapers published in the colony, whether for sale or gratuitous distribution, and registered at the General Post Office for transmission by post, may cither be forwarded like other printed matter under the regulations of the book post, or may be transmitted within the colony on payment of a postage rate of a £d each. Newspapers published outside the colony may be scut through the post as if they had been registered in New Zealand. Newspapers whether originating in the colony, or beyond the colony, redirected from one postoffice to another within the colony, may be transmitted accordingly. A newspaper shall not contain any enclosures other than the supplement or supplements proper to the newspaper, nor any writing or other mark beyond the name and address of the person to whom it is sent, nor anything on the cover but the name and address, the printed title of the newspaper, and the printed name and address of the publisher or vendor who sends it, MONEY' ORDERS. Arc issued between the hours of 9 a.in. and 4 p.m., except on Saturday, when the offices are closed before 5 p.m. Money Order Offices at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin close at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Telegraph money orders (3d per ,C and telegraph fee Is) can be transmitted between offices issuing money orders. By post (within New Zealand) Gd per £5. Ou the United Kingdom, Is per £2. No order issued ou United Kingdom for more than £lO. On the Australian Colonics and Tasmania, £2, G I ; £5, Is ; £7, Is Gd ; £lO, 2s ; £l2. 2s Gd ; £ls, 3s ; £l7, 3s Gd ; £2O, 4s. On the United States and Canada, not exceeding £2, Is Gd ; £4, 2s Gd ; £G, 3s Gd ; £S, 4s G 1 ; £lO, 5s G 1 ; £l2, 7s ; £l4, 8s £IG, 9s ; £IS, 10s ; £29, 11s. Money Orders can also be procured for various foreign countries and British Possessions through the London.