POSTAL REGUILATIONS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 177, 29 July 1907, Page 2

POSTAL REGUILATIONS

j Letters and Letter-cards.—lnland ] for each 4oz. or fraction thereof. Tht i United Kingdom, British possessions, etc. j Id for each tjroz. or fraction thereof. Al] | other places2£d for each £oz. or fraction thereof. Note.—" Inland " includes the Cook Is lands—namely, Earatonga, Mangaia, Atiu Aitutaki, Mitiaro, Mauke (Parry), and j Hervey (Manuae); also Palmerston (Ava- ! rua), Niue (Savage), Pukapuka (Danger), i Eakaanga, Manahiki, Penrhyn (TongaI reva),and Sawarrow Islands. | Post-cards.—All places : Single, Id ; rei ply, 2d. j Commercial Papers.—Town (for ac ; counts &c, only) £d if not exceeding £oz. I or Id for the first 4oz. or fraction thereof i and Id for each succeeding 2oz. or frac- ■ tion theroof. | Inland, Id for the first 4oz. or fraction : thereof, and £d for each succeeding 2oz I or fraction thereof. j In all other places 2Jd for the first 1C ! oz., and £d for each succeeding 2oz. oj I raction thereof. j Books and Printed Papers.—All places ; |d for each 2oz. or fraction thereof. ! Pattern and Sample Packets.—lnland i Not exceeding 20z., |d ; over 20z., as foi I " All other places." | All other places : Not exceeding 4oz. , Id ; every additional 2oz, or fraction thereof, £d. .Newspapers.—Town and inland, -§(3 each. i Australia, South Sea Islands, Canada and many other British possessions, each. ; United Kingdom, Id each. ' All other places, Id each if not exceeding 40z., and &d additional for every succeeding 2oz. or fraction thereof. " Eegistration, 3d for all placesParcels.—lnland, 4d for the first lib., and 2d for each, succeeding lib.; Australian States, 8d for the first lib., and 6d for each succeeding lib. ; for U.K., Is / up to 31bs, 2s up to 71bs, 3s up to 11 the for all other countries the charges vary Kegistration.—The fee for all places is 3d. GENERAL REGULATIONS. Letters.—Letters not fully prepaid or posted wholly unpaid are charged double the deficiency at the prepaid rate on delivery. No letter may exceed 2ft. in length or Ift. in width or depth. Letters .containing valuables must be registered. Late-fee Letters, etc., must bear, in addition to the ordinary postage, Id. POST-CAKDS, All places, each single post-card, Id j each reply-paid post-card, 2d. Post-cards must be sent unclosed. Excepting stamps for prepayment and an address-label, nothing whatever must be joined or attached to a postcard for a place beyond the Colony. For delivery within the Colony receipt-stamps or slips oE paper may be affixed to post-cards, provided the total weight does not exceed ioz. Printed Matter superscribed "Postcard."—Cards fulfilling the conditions of printed matter may pass at the rate for printed matter in New Zealand and to the United Kingdom although they bear the words " Post-card" as a heading. POSTAL NOTES. Postal notes for fixed sums from Is up to £o are issued and paid at all Money Order Offices in New Zealand. j The following are the amounts for j which postal notes are issued, together with the poundage payable in respect of each note:— Amount ' Amount1 * of Note Poundage of Note Poundage £ s. d. d. £ s. d. d. 1 0 ... J 5 0 ... 1£ 1 6 .. } 10 0 ... 3 2 0 ... 1 .15 0 ... 3 2 6 ... 1 1 0 0 ... 3 3 0 ... 15 0 0 ... 61 Broken amounts may be made up fry the use of postage stamps, not exceeding 5d in value, amxed to the back of any one postal note. These stamps must be affixed only by the sender or remitters of such postal notes. COMMISSION CHARGEABLE ON MONEY ORDERS. Commission on Money Orders issued in Now Zealand is charged according to the following scale: — BY TELEGKAPH. (Within New Zealand.) At the rates chargeable for orders by post and a telegraph fee of Is for each order. Money Order Telegrams can be sent as urgent upon payment of Is on each order in addition to the ordinary rates. Such telegrams will rate as Urgent Ordinary Telegrams, and be sent in the order of their receipt with other telegrams of the like code. The remitter of a Maney Order Telegram may have a private communication for the payee added to the official telegram of advice on paying for the additional words at the following rates :— Ordinary, Id per word, with a minimum charge of 6d; urgent, 2d per word, with a minimum charge of Is, which covers cost of urgent fee for private message and official telegram of advice. (Australia.) At the rates chargeable for orders by post and a telegraph charge at the rate for a message to the State upon which the Money Order is drawn.