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DEFINITION

A packet which is admissible at the printed paper rate in the inland post is not necessarily admissible at that rate in the overseas post. For example, receipts, invoices and statements of account, which are admissible at the printed paper rate if addressed to places in the Colony, are not admissible at that rate in the overseas service; such documents for places abroad fall into the category of commercial papers. In general, the printed paper rate applies to all impressions or copies obtained upon paper or other similar material, parchment or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, mimeography, or other mechanical process easy to recognise, except the typewriter, the copying-press and hand stamps with or without movable type.

Printed matter which bears any marks whatsoever, capable of constituting a conventional language, or, with the exceptions mention- ed on page 12 under the heading Additions and Alterations, of which the text has been modified after printing is not admissible at the printed paper rate in the overseas post.

MAKE-UP

Packets of printed papers should be clearly marked in the upper left- hand corner Printed Papers. They are subject to examination in the post, and must be made up in such a way as to be easily examined. They may be placed in a wrapper, upon a roller, between boards, in an open case or in an unclosed envelope furnished with a blunt fastening easy to untie. Printed matter of the form and substance of a card may be sent unenclosed without band, envelope, or fastening, and must then conform to the conditions for postcards except as regards postage rates and maximum

and maximum dimension, see page Similarly, printed papers may be sent unenclosed if they are folded in such a way that they cannot become unfolded during transmission, and that there is no risk of their entrapping other articles.

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In view of the risk of other packets being entrapped when open covers are used, posters are reminded that embarrassing packets generally are prohibited from the post and are recommended to use the type of covers suggested in paragraph 10 on page 31.

STYLE OF PRINTING

For the purpose of the printed paper rate, printing is matter in ordinary or manuscript characters but not in characters resembling those of the type-writer, produced by a printing machine or hand- stamped, mimeographed, lithographed, hectographed or cyclostyled. Writing is matter written by hand or by means of the typewriter. Reference in the regulations to writing, therefore, includes type- writting. Imitation typewriting includes matter printed or reproduced by any process (for example, mimeograph, hectograph, carbon paper) in imitation of typewritten characters. Any two or more documents coming within the definition of a printed paper may appear on the same sheet of paper, provided they are kept wholly distinct from one another.

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