Directory_and_Chronicle_1916 — Page 611

*526

CHINESE POST OFFICE-TARIFF OF POSTAGE

1.- DOMESTIC PLACES

LOCAL: Tariff I.-Applies to Mail Matter and Farcels within Local delivery radius. DOMESTIC: Tariff II.-Applies to Mail Matter and Parcels between Chinese Post Offices in China; but-

1-Letters and Poste irds to an I from MONGOLIA (Urga and Kiachta) p`y double Domestic rates. 2.-- As regards postage to, from and within the province of INKIANG :—

1o. All classes of Mail Matter to and from places within the province of SiNKIANG are

to be franked at Domestic rates.

2o. All classes of Mail Matter from Sinking to places in China, and from places in China to Sinkiang, despatched við Kansu, are to be tranked at double Domestic rates. 3o. All classes of Mail Matter from Sinkiang to Foreign places in China, and from Foreign places and places in China to Sinkiang, despatched vid Siberia, are to be franked at International rates.

3.-Correspondence, Ordinary and Registered, to and from places in TIBET is to be franked at full Union rates.

4.-Parcels to and from places in Sbensi, K nsu, Yunnan (see paragraph 5 below), Kweichow, and Szechwan are charged double Domestic rates; but for Yangtze down-river, Parcels only, posted at the following places-Chentgu, Suifu, Kiatingfu, Taihochen, Suining Sze, Chungking, Luchow, Hochow, Sze, Fowchow Sze, Wanhsier, Kweichowfu, Wushan, Yünyanghsien, Kaihsien, Taningchang, Tan'ughsien, laiki, and Yünanchang,- single (instead of double) rates will be charged. Parcels for Kwanchengize or Kirin are charged single Domestic rates; but Parcels to, from, and between places north of these two cities are charged double Domestic rates.

5.-Parcels to and from places in YUNNAN, for transmission through Hongkong and Tonkin, pay Domestic postage as follows:-

Not exceeding 5 kilos

$1,50

Exceeding 5 kilos but not exceeding 10 kilos, and also cumbersome Parcels 2.60

N.B.—Paragraph 6 below does not apply to these Parcels,

6.-On Parcels via Hongkong to Domestic p'aces an extra 2 cents per kilogramme (1 lb.) is charged except in the case of paragraph 5 above.

2.-FOREIGN COUNTRIES

(Weight and size must conform with the Rules of the country concerned.)

UNION: Tariff III. (Union Rates).-Mail Matter to or from countries in the Postal Union. JAPAN, ETC.: Tariff JV.—Mail mitter to and from Japan, Kore, and the Leised Territory of Kwantung.

For Fackets containing se ds of agricultural products the rate of postage is 1 cent per 112 grammes or fraction thereof, up to 1,120 grammes.

HONGKONG, ETC.: Tariff V.—Mail Matter to or from Hongkong and Liukungtao (Weihaiwei), Maçao, and Tsingtao (German Kiaochow).

[Exception: Letters from Canton (Fatsh in, Chanchuen, and Whampoa) to Hongkong are charged 2 cents per 15 grammes.]

These Tariffs frank International Mail Matter prepaid at Union rates (III.) or at specially arranged rates (IV., V.) to and from any place in China where a Chinese Post Office exists; but a tax of 2 cents (5 centimes) for each article distributed is collected from the addressees or Printed Papers of all kinds-Newspapers, Books, Printed matter-received from foreign countries and addressed to non-steam-served places.

International Parcels from establishments belonging to Category A (Special List No. 7- Offices exchanging Parcels under Union regulations) pay postage according to the International Parcel Tariff.

International Parcels from establishments belonging to Category B (place not included in Special List No. 7) pay the above and, in addition, Domestic postage (Tariff II), single or double (vide Section 1, 4, above), according to place f origin.

In the case of International Parcels destined to establishments belonging to Category B, this Domestic postage is collected fro n addre· sees.

NOTES

1.-DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ARTICLES.-(1.) Full prepayment of Domestic rates in Chinese stamps is compulsory; articles insufficiently prepaid will be refused when presented for posting, and if dropped into the letter-box are liable to detention. Articles arriving from abroad insufficiently franked will be forwarded to destination, bit double the deficiency in Union postage --and of Heavy Mail Articl-s transmitted inland, once the deficiency in Domestic postage-will be collected from the addressee on delivery. The ancunt due will be assessed in every case by a