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INLAND POST
The use of the sample post is restricted to genuine trade samples; and no article is admissible unless it be in fact a specimen of goods for sale. The specimen must be in itself without saleable value. The sample post may not be used, in any circumstances, for the conveyance of goods for sale or consigned in execution of an order however small the quantity sent from a dealer to an actual, or possible, purchaser, or for the transmission of articles from one private person another.
MODE OF PACKING AND ADDRESS
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Articles sent by sample post must be enclosed in covers open at the ends or in unsealed envelopes or packed in such a manner as to allow them to be easily examined.
Seeds, tea, flour, drugs and similar articles, which cannot be sent in open wrappers or covers, may be sent in boxes or bags made up in a way which allows them to be easily examined.
The upper left-hand corner of the packet must be clearly marked SAMPLE.
The name and address of the firm by whom the packet is sent must be printed or conspicuously stamped on the outside of the wrapper or on the address label, preferably near the top left-hand corner and at right angles to the name and address of the addressee.
No packet sent by sample post may contain a letter or anything in the nature of a letter; but a document admissible at the printed paper rate, such as an order form, may be enclosed.
Packets sent by sample post containing circulars wholly or partly printed in imitation of typewriting must be specially handed in at a post office in batches of at least 20 packets, in accordance with the conditions governing similar documents in the printed paper post.
Living creatures except bees, leeches and silkworms are not admissible by sample post.
A packet marked for transmission by sample post, but contravening the sample post regulations, will be treated as a letter and charged double the deficient postage at the letter rate. A packet admissible at the sample rate, which is posted underpaid, is chargeable with double the deficiency.
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