BOOK PACKETS.

New Zealander, Volume XXI, Issue 2278, 18 November 1864, Page 6

BOOK PACKETS.

• 1, To any paor tf live "Colony,the Australan Colonics, or to the United Kingdlom, via Snpthampton. Not exceeding 4~oz" ... ... ... ... 4d. Exceeding 4 oz., ami rot exceeding 8 oz. ... Bd. „ 8 oz. „ 16 oz. Is. 4d. And so on, increasing eight pence for every additional half-pound, or fraction of half-a-ponnd. 2. To the following British Colonies : Ascension, lonian Islands, Bermuda, Natal, British West Indies, New Brunswick, Canada, Newfoundland, Cape of Good Hope,* Nova Scotia, Falkland Islands, Prince Edward Island, Gambia, St. Helena, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Heligoland, Vancouver’s Island. Not exceeding 4oz ... 7d. Exceeding 4 oz., and not exceeding 8 oz. Is. 2d. „ 8 oz. „ „ 16 oz. 2s. 4d.

And so on, increasing one shilling; and twopence for every half-pound, or fraction of half-a-pound.

BANKERS’ PARCELS, Containing only Bank Notes, Orders, Bills, and Promissory Notes, Cheques, Passbooks, or Bank Returns sent by or to any Bank, or Banker, within the Colony, (provided such parcels are securely closed and sealed, and contain no letter or eommunication in the nature of a letter, and bear along with the address of such parcel, the words “Banker’s Parcel, without Letter, subscribed by the sender of such parcel, with his name and address,) shall be received as Book Packets and shall be transmitted, within the colony, at the same rate as Book Packets. REGULATIONS. Prepayment by Stamps.— All letters, packets and newspapers if liable to postage, posted in New Zealand must be prepaid by affixing postage labels of the Colony of sufficient value. . , , Loose Letters.-t-AH letters received from beyond seas, at any Post-office in this Colony, which have not been regularly posted at the place of despatch (loose letters), are chargeable with full postage, according to the rates established the foregoing tables, unless they are letters which it is not compulsory by law to send by post, in which case they are chargeable with the inland rate of postage only. Insufficient Payment. - Letters and packets liable to more than one rate of postage, and,addressed to places within the Colony, or to the United Kingdom, if bearing at least a single rate, will be forwarded, and charged with the postage deficient, and another single rate as a fine. Letters and packets so addressed, and bearing less than a single rate of postage, and all letters and packets otherwise addressed, not bearing the full postage chargeable,, will be detained and returned to the sender in al cases where practicable. Newspapers, if posted without prepayment of the full amount of postage chargeabl •, can neither be forwarded to their destination nor returned to the sender; but will be delivered or forwarded to the person addressed, on application, within six months, at the office where the same were posted, and payment of the deficient postage in stamps. This rule applies also to letters for, the Colony of Any person can have a letter registered by affixing on it by means of the proper labels the amount of the registration fee, in addition to the proper postage, and presenting it at a Post Office during office hours, and at least one hour before the closing of the Mail by which it is desired to be transmitted. Every precaution will bo adopted to ensure tbe safe delivery of a registered letter by entering it on the letter bills, and obtaining a receipt for the same on delivery. As the. Post Office, however, is not responsible for the loss of any letter, whether registered or otherwise, persons sending Bank Notes or Drafts are advised to take the numbers and particulars, and to cut the Notes or Drafts in halves, and to send them by ' R e -mr ec xi on .—Letters, Newspapers, and Packets will be re-directed from one Post Office to anothei on the written instructions of the person addressed, but on re-direction are chargeable with a new and distmpt rate of postage, to be paid on delivery. , Penalties. —Any person sending as exempt from postage letters not liable to exemption, or enclosing a communication in the nature of a letter in any Newspaper or Book-packet, is liable to a penalty of £-0. Size and Weight.— No Book-packet or packet of newspapers will be received, nor will any Postmaster he required to receive any letter, if it exceed two feet in length, one foot in width or depth, or three pounds Book-packets to be open for Inspection.— Every Book-packet shall be sent open at the ends or sidesf and there shall be no enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection sent in or with such packet, nor anything printed or written in the nature of a letter. Contents.— With the above limitations, a Bookpacket may contain any number of separate books, mans prints, or photographs, and any quantity of paper, vellum, or parchment, either printed, written on. or plain, (exclusive of anything in the nature of a letter, whether sealed or open), with the binding, covering, or mounting attached or ocionging to sue book, print, map or phograph, and all things legitimately appertaining to or necessary for the transmission of any enclosed literary or artistic matter, but exclusive of glass in any form. The names and addresses of the sender may appear on the cover. Overland Carriage. —No Postmaster will be requhed to receive any Book-packqt for transmission by 4 an overland mail, if from its weight or “7 other cause the packet appear calculated to retard the carrier.