THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 724, 15 October 1870, Page 4

THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

I.—Tgtvn Lettes. Posted at any Post-office within the colon from delivery at or from such Post-office " Not exceeding half-an-ounce „ t Onepf — Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce ... Twopem For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce Twopencll.—Cocntrt Letters. Posted at any Post-office within the colony for delivery at or from any other Poet-office within the same province— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Twopeuce Exceeding half-an-ounee but not * exceeding one ounce Fourpeuce. For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce ... Pourpence lll.—lnterprovincial Letters. Posted at any Post-office within the colon* for delivery at or from any Post-office in arj other province within the colony Not exceeding half an ounce, Twopence Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce Pourpence For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce ... ,„ Sixpence NEWSPAPERS. | Forplaces within the colony, the Australian Colonies, and the United Kingdom, Sue* and Southampton, are chargeable w'th a rate of one penny. Newspapers for the United Kingdom, via Panama or Suez, one penny; and Marseilles threepence each. " In consequence of newspapers being fre. quently posted in packages of more than one number, the same are detained at the Chief Post-office, and attention is called to the fob. lowing postal regulation:— " Newspapers for transmission within the colony shall be posted in single numbers, so put up that the date of publication may be readily seen. Packages of newspapers consist-, uig of more than one number shall be treated as bookpackages.