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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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(b) On printed visiting cards the address or title of the sender, or conventional initials, such as "p.p.c.," may be written, and also good wishes, congratu- lations, thanks, condolences, or other formulas of courtesy, expressed in not more than five words.

(e) On printed circulars corrections and insertions may be made in manu- script or by a mechanical process in regard to names of commercial travellers, dates of their journey, and the places they intend to visit, dates of departure of ships, names of persons invited to meetings, and the place, date and object of the meetings.

(d) Printers' proofs may be corrected in manuscript; additions which relate to accuracy, form and printing may be made, and in case of want of space additional sheets may be used; the author's manuscript may be enclosed; printers' errors in other printed documents may also be corrected, and figures may be inserted or corrected in prices current, tenders for adver- tisements, trade circulars, prospectuses and stock and share lists. (e) Books, papers, music, photographs, engravings, and Christmas and New Year's cards may have a dedication inscribed on them, and the invoice relating to them may be enclosed.

(ƒ) In forms of order or subscription for books printed on cards the works

required or offered may be indicated in manuscript.

(9) To cuttings from newspapers and periodical publications may be added in manuscript or by a mechanical process the title, date, number and address of the publication from which the article is extracted.

168.-Circulars which are in other respects admissible but which are printed or lithographed in characters resembling those of the typewriter, or are produced by means of any mechanical process from type-written originals, will be admitted to the privilege of the Book rate, provided that they are posted by being handed in at the window of the Post Office and that special attention is called to their nature, and that at least twenty copies precisely identical are posted at the same time.

169.--" Commercial Papers" comprise all papers or documents written or drawn wholly or partly by hand (except letters or communications in the nature of letters, or other papers or documents having the character of an actual and personal correspon- dence), documents of legal procedure, deeds drawn up by public functionaries, copies of or extracts from deeds under private seal written or stamped or unstamped paper, way bills, bills of lading, invoices, and other documents of a mercantile character, documents of insurance and other public companies, all kinds of manuscript music, the manuscript of books and other literary works, and pupils' exercises with corrections but without any comment on the work, and other papers of a similar description.

RATE OF POSTAGE

170-The rate of postage to be prepaid in Hongkong and at the British Postal Agen- cies in China on printed papers and commercial papers for all places abroad is 2 cents for each 2 ounces except to those places named in the footnote to Rule 155.

N.B. For commercial papers the lowest charge is 10 cents, for which sum, however, a weight of 10 oz. may be sent. If there be any mixture of commercial and other papers in the same packet the whole is treated as commercial papers.

LIMITS OF SIZE AND WEIGHT

171.-The limits of size for packets addressed to the United Kingdom, British colonies or possessions or to non-Union countries or colonies are 2 feet in length by 1 foot in width or depth; but to foreign countries in the Postal Union the length is limited to 18 inches. If in the form of a roll the limits of size in either case are 30 inches in length and 4 inches in diameter. The limits of weight are 5 lb. for the United Kingdom, Bri- tish colonies or possessions, and for non-union countries or colonies, and 4 lb. for foreign countries in the Postal Union.

172.-Printed papers and commercial papers may be posted either without a cover, in which case they must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing wax, postage stamp or otherwise), or in any ordinary letter envelope left wholly unfastened, or in any other cover, or upon rollers entirely open at both ends, or between boards so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination. For the greater security of the contents, however, the packets may be tied at the ends with string, but the string must be easy to unfasten.