Postal Regulations.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1363, 4 June 1895, Page 6

Postal Regulations.

INLAND LETTERS. Letters for places within New Zealand, insufficiently prepaid, are forwarded, charged with double the deficiency. Late Letters, whether posted at the Post Office, on board steamers, or in railway vans, must bear the full postage and late fee. If posted unpaid, or insufficiently prepaid, they will not be despatched from the Post Office till the next mail ; but it posted ou board steamers or in the railway vans, they will be charged, on delivery, with double the deficient postage, or late fee. The late fee is a single rate extra to places outside New Zealand. Within New Zealand the late fee is Id. POST CARDS. Penny post cards and reply-paid post cards for transmission between places in New Zealand aud 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, beyoud the wiitteu or printed address, nothing whatever must be printed or written upon that side of the card. On the reverse side, any communica tion, whether of the nature of a letter or otherwise, may be printed or written. Nothing whatever may he attached to the card, iiv,r may it be folded, cut, or otherwise altered. Post cards may ue used for eceipts, to the back of which a receipt tamp may be affixed. NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS. The postage on uewspapeis for places beyoud tne ddouy is £d per 2oz ; except to the United KiugUoni and. Austrahau Colonies, to whicti postage is Id each newspaper, irrespective of weight. Newspaper wrappers, 18 for lOd, may be purchased at any Post office, or from any licensed veudor. Tlie wrappers are for newspapers intended to be sent through the post for places within New Zealand ; but tney may also be used for forwarding newspapers to places beyond the colony ; ou prepayment of the additional postage. INLAND POST. Book, Packet, aud Circular Post.—The postage is on each circular not exceeding ioz id, not exceeding 4oz Id, and £1 lor every additional 2oz. A circular is held to be a communication intended for transmission in identical terms to several persons, and the whole or greater part of wfiich is produced by means 01 ordinary type, eugraviug, iithoj>rapic 01 any other mechanical process, aud may be 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 iu such a maimer as to admit of its being easily examined (it must not be fastened with any adhesive). If enclosed in a cover or envelope, tUe cover must be entirely open at one end or side, or the li> of the envelope turned inside instead 01 gummed over. If posted unpaid, 01 addressed to any place requiring delivery through a second f ost Office inot a suburban office), or otherwise not complying win. these regulations, will be sent to the Ueau JLetter uffice. A packet may be sent either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gam, wafer, sealing wax, post-stamp, or otherwise), or in a cover open, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination bor the greater security of the contents, the packet may he tied at the ends with string, but in such case Postmasters are authorised to cut the striug, even though it De seaieu —but if they do so they will again tie the packet. No packet may contain anything which is sealed or otherwise closed against inspection ; nor must there be auy letter, or any communication ot the nature of a letter, whether separate or otherwise, unless the whole or such letter or communication be printed. .Entries, however, merely stating who sends the book, etc., or to whom it is given, are admissible. Indeed, as respects Cne name and address of the sender, not only is the writing permitted, but it is recommended ; so tUat if the cover comes off, or for auy 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 iu 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 New Zealand, so made up that it cannot be opened without tearing the cover or breaking the 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, the packet will be surcharged at simple letter without tine, less the postage affixed, and forwarded to its address. Jf addressed to any place beyond New Zealand, they will be detained aud sent 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 Jlij turned inside, instead of gummed over in the usual manner, so that the contents may be examined without cutting or tearing the envelope. FOREIGN BOOK POST. The conditions under which books and printed and written matter may be sent through the post to all places outside New Zealand are iu the main the same as under the Inland Book and Packet Post llegulations. Press manuscript may be transmitted to the United Kingdom and the Australian Colonies. If a packet be posted not open at the end or sides, or contain auy 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 agaiust inspection, or any other unauthorised enclosure, it will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. If a book packet for the Australian Colonies, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other British-American places, and the United States ot America be not sufficiently prepaid with stamps, but nevertheless bear stimps of the value of one 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 be charged double the deficient postage, and forwarded. NEWSPAPERS. Kates of Postage—id each within the colony, and id 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 either 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 4*l each. Newspapers published outside the colony may be sent through the post as if they had been regiatered 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 ou ttic cover but the name and address, the printed title of the newspaper, and the printed name and address of the publisher or veudor who sends it. MONKY ORDERS. Are issued between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., except on Saturday, when the offices are closed before 5 p.m. Money Order Offices at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Duuediu close at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Telegraph money orders (3d per £ and telegraph tee Is) can be transmitted between offices issuing money orders. By post (within New Zealand) 6d per £5. On the United Kiugdom, Is per £2. No order issued ou United Kingdom for more than £lO. On the Austraiiau Colonies and Tasmania, £2, 6d ; £5, Is ; £7, Is Gd ; £lO, 2s ; £l2, 2s Gd ; £ls, 3s ; £l7, 3s Gd ; £2O, 4s. Ou the United States and Canada, not exceeding £2, La Gd ; £4, 2s 6d ; £G, 3s Gd ; s.B, 4s Gd ; £lO, 5s 6d ; £l2, 7s j £l4, Ss £l6, 9s ; £lB, 10s ; £2d, lis. Money Orders can also be procured for various foreign countries and British fossessions through the London.