HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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46.-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.
47.-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 and Printed Papers
48-Printed papers may be forwarded to anywhere at 2 cents per 2 oz.
49 --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, &c., must be sent at letter rate.
50.--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, da e, number and address of the publication from which the article is extracted, is permitted.
51.--Mechanical reproductions (not less than twenty) of a manuscript or typewrit- ten original may pass as printed papers if handed in at the Post Office counter.
52.-Albums containing photographs may pass as printed papers.
53. 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 corners cut off or with notched ends will be taxed and sent forward as letter rate. Packets may be tied with string to protect the contents, but in such a way that the string can be easily untied.
54. The rules applicable to unpaid or insufficiently paid newspapers are equally applicable to book packets and commercial papers.
55.--Book packets which do not accord with regulations are returned to senders when possible.
56. The undermentioned articles are excluded from transmission at the rate applicable to printed papers :-
Postage stamps, whether obliterated or not, and in general all printed articles constituting the sign of a monetary value, Bank paper, note paper or envelopes (with or without printed address) and all other articles of stationery pure and simple.
57. The products of the copying press and typewriter are not admitted at the 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 inay be added. (b) On printed visiting cards the address or title of the sender, or conventional
initials, such as "p.p.c.,"
p.p.c.," may be written, and also good wishes, con- gratulations, thanks, condolences, or other formulas of courtes v, expressed in not more than five words.
(e) On printed circulars corrections and insertions may be made in manuscript or by a mechanical process in regard to names of commercial travellers, date of their journey, and the places they intend to visit, dates of departure of ship, names of persons invited to meetings, and the place, date and object of the meetings.
() 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
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