Postal Regulations.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1374, 27 August 1895, Page 3

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 if posted on 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 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 Jay 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 maybe attached to the card, nvir may it be folded, cut, or otherwise altered. Post cards may be used for eceipts, to the back of which a receipt tamp may be affixed. NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS. Newspaper wrappers, 18 for 101, may be purchased at any fost Office, or from any licensed vendor. The wrappers are for newspapers intended to be seut through the post for places within New Zealand ; but 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 £oz -|d) no * exceeding 4oz Id, and £i for 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 which is produced by means of ordinary type, engraving, lithograph: or any other mechanical process, and may be posted with or without a cover. If sent without a cover, the address to be written on the face of the circular, and. 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 Office. A packet may be sent either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by iceans 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. j For the greater security of the contents, the packet may be tied at the ends with string, but in such case i\>sb masters are authorised to cut the string, even though it be sealed —but if they do so they will again tie up the packet. No packet m.iy coutaiu 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, are admissible. Indeed, as respect* the name and address of the sender, not only is the writing permitted, but 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 racket 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 anycommunication 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. If addressed to any place beyond New Zealand, they will be debaiued and 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 fly 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 in the main the same as under the Inland Book and Packet Post Regulations. 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 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 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 oi America be not sufficiently prepaid with stamps, but nevertheless bear stimps of the value of oue 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. . Rates of Postage—|d each within the colony, and Id for papers not exceeding 4oz and \<\ each additional 2oz outside the colony, except to the Australian colonies, to which the postage is Id each newspaper irrespective of weight. All newspapers published in the colony, whether for sale or gratuitous distribution, and registered at the General Post Office or 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 £d each. Newspapers published outside the colony may be sent through the post as if they had been registered in New Zealand. Newspapers whether originating in tbe colony, or beyond the colony, redirected from one poßt office to another within the colony, may be transmittedaec'jrdingly. 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 ORUERS. Are issued between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 2). in.,' 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 £ and telegraph fee Is) can be transmitted between offices issuing money orders. By post (within New Zealand) 6d per £5. On the United Kingdom, Is' per £2. No order issued on United Kingdom for more than £lO. Ou the Australian Colonies and Tasmania, £2, 61; £5, Is ; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s ; £l2, 2s Gd ; £ls, 3s ; £l7, 3s 6i ; £2O, 4s. Oa the United Abates and Canada, not; exceeding £2, Is 6d ; £4, 2s 6d ; £6, 3s 6d ; £B, 4s 61; £lO, 5s 6J ; £l2, 7a ; £l4, 8s ; £l6, 9s; £lB, 10s; £2O, Us, Money Orders can also be procured for various foreign couubries and British Possessions through bhe London.