IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN POST
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Prohibited Articles
LETTER POST
It is prohibited to send by post:
1. Betting advertisements if relating to an illegal
business.
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Counterfeit bank or currency notes and postage stamps.
Dangerous articles, including explosives, cer- tain inflammable, corrosive, noxious or deleteri- ous, or otherwise harmful substances and sharp instruments not properly protected. Christmas crackers, however, are admitted.
Filth.
5. Fortune-telling documents.
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Indecent, obscene, or grossly offensive communi- cations, marks, designs, prints, photographs or other articles.
Lottery tickets or advertisements.
Moneylenders' circulars if sent unsolicited.
Packets bearing previously used postage stamps or words, marks, or designs which are unauth- orised and which may reasonably lead the recipient to believe that the packet is sent on His Majesty's Service.
10. Packets consisting of or containing two or more postal packets, of the same or of different des- criptions addressed to different persons at different addresses.
11. Packets inadequately packed, which are likely to damage other postal packets or cause injury to officers of the Post Office.
12. Articles infringing trade-mark or copyright
• laws.
13. Articles prohibited under import regulations abroad, or subject to restrictions unless the requirements of the country of destination are complied with. Lists of the principal classes of articles in question are given in the summaries