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HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE

37.-Postage on printed papers must be fully prepaid; packets of Printed Papers which are not prepaid or which are not made up in such a manner as to admit of an easy examination of the contents, or which exceed the limits of weight and size fixed by paragraph 36, or which in any other respect do not fulfil the conditions laid down in the preceding paragraphs will not be forwarded.

38.-Packets of papers printed in relief for the use of the blind are accepted for all destinations up to 6 pounds in weight at the special rate of 2 cents per 2 pounds. Such packets may not exceed the dimensions prescribed for other classes of printed papers.

2 oz.

39.-Printed papers may be forwarded to all destinations at 2 cents per

Newspapers published in Hong Kong.

40.-Newspapers published in Hong Kong and posted singly to the following places are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 oz. or fraction thereof, viz.-Hong Kong, United Kingdom, British possessions and protectorates, China and Macao.

41.-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 the rate for Printed Papers.

42.-Two newspapers must not be folded together as one if intended for transmission at the single rate, 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 the rate for Printed Papers.

Circulars.

43.-A circular is a communication of which copies are addressed in iden- tical terms, or nearly so, to a number of persons. It may be either written or printed, or partly written and partly printed.

44.-Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, Patterns, Bills, Almanacs, &c., are also included under the head of Circulars when intended for addresses in Hong Kong or Wei-hai-wei only, and when posted in batches of not less than ten of uniform size and weight, by being delivered to an officer of the Post Office, are accepted at the rate of 1 cent for each two ounces or part of two ounces.

45.-Circulars when posted singly or addressed to places other than Hong Kong or Wei-hai-wei must be prepaid at the rate applicable to the class of article to which they rightly belong.

46.-Addresses must be complete; that is to say, on such covers as are not addressed to heads of houses, the addressee's residence or place of business must be added.

.47.-Circulars arriving in such large quantities as to retard the delivery of the mails are allowed to stand over till there is time to deal with them.