HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
UNPAID AND PARTIALLY PAID LETTERS.
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157.-Letters posted unpaid or insufficiently prepaid, for any country to which prepayment is compulsory, are returned to the writers.
LETTERS FOR RUSSIA.
158.-The addresses of letters for Russia should be very plainly written; the nam of the town and of the province in which it is situated should also be added in English.
EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS.
159.-The countries in which exceptional conditions apply, such as compulsory pre- payment of postage, the collection of an additional charge on delivery, or the absence of arrangement for the complete or even partial registration of letters, will be found in the footnotes to the Table of Rates of Postage.
LETTERS, &C., IRREGULARLY MARKED WITH DECLARATION OF Value.
160.-Letters, &c., bearing on the outside a declaration of the value of the contents. cannot be transmitted by post to places abroad unless they are insured (see Rule 196).
POST CARDS.
161.-Official post cards, single and reply, are transmissible to all parts of the world Single cards are issued with impressed stamps of 4 cents and reply cards bearing stamps of the value of 4 cents in each half. Local post cards are also transmissible abroad if the additional postage required is supplied by means of postage stamps affixed to the cards.
162.-Private post cards bearing adhesive stamps of the value of 4 cents, and private reply cards with adhesive stamps of the value of 4 cents on each half, may be sent as post cards to places abroad, provided that they are in conformity with the official post cards in respect of size, substance and other requirements and comply with the local rules (see Rules 78-80).
163.—Unpaid post cards from places abroad are charged 8 cents each and partially paid cards are charged double the deficient postage.
PRINTED PAPERS AND COMMERCIAL PAPERS.
164.-The articles which are entitled to be sent at the rate applicable to printed papers are mostly impressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment or cardboard, by means of printing, lithography, engraving, photographing, or any other mechanical process easy to recognize.
165. This description includes the undermentioned articles wholly printed: Newspapers, books (stitched or bound), periodical works, pamphlets, sheets of music, visiting cards, address cards, proofs of printing, plans, maps, catalogues, prospectuses, announcements, circulars, notices, engravings, photographs and designs. Anything not being of glass, usually attached or appurtenant to any of the above-mentioned articles in the way of binding, mounting or otherwise, and anything convenient for their safe transmission by post, may also pass at the rate applicable to such articles provided it is contained in the same packet.
166.-Besides these articles there are some others which are admitted, though not really printed matter, as, for instance, manuscript intended for the press (when sent with the proofs of the same), papers impressed for the use of the blind, albums con- taining photographs, and cardboard drawing models stamped in relief.
167.-Postage stamps, whether obliterated or not, and in general all printed articles constituting the sign of a monetary value, are excluded from transmission at the reduced rate of postage to countries of the Postal Union.
168.-The products of the copying press and typewriter are not admitted at tho rate for printed papers nor, as a rule, are printed papers, the text of which has been modified after printing, either by hand or by means of a mechanical process, so as to constitute a conventional language. But the following exceptions are allowed:—
(a) Printed circulars may be dated in manuscript or by a mechanical process and the signature of the sender, his trade or profession, and his address may be added.
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