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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Address to be complete.
33.-Addresses should be as complete as possible in order to facilitate delivery, and in order that, in the event of the letter becoming from any cause undeliverable, it may be returned to the writer unopened, it is recommended that the sender's name and address be also superscribed on the cover.
Unpaid Letters; Loose Letters.
34.-The general rule as to insufficiently paid letters is to double the deficient postage. If the despatching office has not indicated how much the deficiency is it is taken to be 10 cents per half ounce, and the letter is consequently charged 20 cents per half ounce. Nothing can be sent wholly unpaid except letters. The prepayment of postage on local letters is compulsory.
35.—Consignees' letters, being privileged by law, need not be sent to the Post Office at all, but if they are sent they are liable to ordinary rates of postage.
36. In the event of an unpaid letter becoming a dead letter the sender is liable, according to international rules, to pay the deficient postage and the fine.
37.- As a general rule Late Letters are received up to the times indicated in para- graphs 18 and 21 on prepayment of same in stamps of a Late Fee of 10 cents and are forwarded by the mail then preparing to be despatched.
PRINTED MATTER-NEWSPAPERS.
38.-The Prepaid rate is as follows:-
Every registered newspaper posted singly and not exceeding
4 ozs. in weight
For each additional 4 ozs........
2 cents. 2 cents.
39.-A bundle of newspapers may be prepaid at so much each (and each one must count, however small), or the whole may be paid at book rate.
40.-Two newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except bona fide supplements of the same paper and same date. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed if the whole be paid at book rate.
41.-A newspaper or a packet of newspapers posted insufficiently paid will on delivery be charged with double the deficiency. Unpaid papers received from the Post Offices at the Coast Ports are returned to the sender if their names appear thereon charged with the amount of short postage.
42.-A newspaper is a printed paper containing news.
43.-Every newspaper should be so folded and covered (if posted in a cover) as to permit the title to be readily inspected, and must be open at both ends.
44.—No newspaper and no cover of a newspaper may bear anything (not being part of the newspaper) except the names and addresses of the sender and the addressee, a request for return in case of non-delivery or the title of the newspaper. If it contains any written communication whatever it will be charged as a letter.
45.-A packet of newspapers must not weigh above 5 lbs. or exceed 2 feet in length by 1 foot in width or depth.
BOOK PACKETS.
46.—The prepaid rate of postage on a book packet is 2 cents for each 2 ounces. 47.-The term "book packet" includes almost all kinds of printed or written matter not of the nature of an actual or personal correspondence, with whatever is necessary for its illustration or safe transmission, as maps, rollers, binding, &c., but a book must contain no communication whatever of the nature of a letter. Stamps of
any kind, whether obliterated or not, or any papers representing monetary value, such as coupons, drafts, lottery tickets, &c., must be sent at letter rates.
48.A book may contain an inscription presenting it, notes or marks referring to the text, or such writing as With the author's compliments, &c. Compliments not exceeding five words may be written on visiting cards. In travellers' announcements the place of the intended visit, as well as the date and the traveller's name, may be indicated in writing, Christmas and New Year's cards may bear a written dedication. Titles of books may be written in forms of subscription to libraries, as well as in orders to booksellers; and on newspaper cuttings the addition in manuscript or by a mechanical process, of the title, date, number and address of the publication from which the article is extracted, is permitted.
49.-Mechanical reproductions (not less than twenty) of a manuscript or type- written original may pass as printed papers if handed in at the Post Office window.
50.-Albums containing photographs may pass as printed papers.
51. The packet must be open at the ends and the contents visible, or easily to be rendered visible. Packets which are sealed or forwarded in closed covers with the
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