Postal Regulations.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 1513, 10 May 1898, Page 6

Postal Regulations.

INLAND LEXTERS. 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 i avlway vans, they will bo charged, on delivery, with double the deficient postage, or late fee. The late fee is a single rate extra to places outside Now Zealand, Within Now Zealand the late fee is Id. DOST CARDS Penny post cards and reply-paid post

cards for transmission between places in New Zealand and the Australian colonial and Tasmania, may bo 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 bo printed or written upon that side of the card. On the reverse, any side communica* tion, whether of the nature of a letter or otherwise, may be printed or written. Nothing whatever may be attached to the card, nor may it be folded, cut, or otherwise latered. Post cards may be used for receipts, to the back of which a receipt stamp may be affixed, j NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS. Newspaper wrappers, 18 for 10d, 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 ; but they may also be used for forwarding nswspapers 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 id, not exceeding 4oz Id, and 44 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, lithograpic 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, aud. if folded, to be folded iu 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 D© entirely open at one end or aide, or the fly 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 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, tor the greater security of the contents, the packet may be tied at the ends with string but in such case Postmasters 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 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 wnom it is given, are admissible. Indeed, as respects 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 contam 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 .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 lie 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 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 b« examined without cutting or tearing the envelope.

TORBION 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 sect 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 of America be not sufficiently prepaid with stamps, but nevertheless bear stamps 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. Rates of Fostage—Jd eacu within the colony, and Id for papers not exceeding 4oz and 4d 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 4d 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 the colony, or beyond the colony, redirected from one post office 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 bat the name and address, the printed title of the newspaper, and the printed nameg and address of’ the publisher or vendor who ends it.

MONEY ORDERS. Are issued between the hours ot 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 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. Bj post (within New Zealand) 6d per £5. On the United Kingdom, la per M2, No order issued on United Kingdom {for more than £lO. On the Australian Colonies' and Tas mania, £2, 6d ; £3, Is ; £7, Is 6d ; £lO, 2s ; £l2, 2s (id ; £ls, 3s ; £l7. 3s 6d ; £2O, 4s; On the United States and Canada, not exceeding £2, la Gd ; £4, 2s 6d ; £6, 3s 6d ; £B, 4a Gd ; £lO, 5a Gd ; £l2, 7a j £l4, 8s , £lO, 9s ; £lB, 10a ; £2O, 11s, Money Orders can also be procured for various foreign countries and British Possessions through the London,