INADMISSIBLE ARTICLES
Postage stamps or forms of prepayment, whether obliterated or not, or any paper representing a monetary value, are inadmissible; but out-of-date correspondence may bear cancelled postage stamps or franking impressions which served to prepay the original postage.
SAMPLES
RATE OF POSTAGE
The prepaid rate to all destinations is 15c. for the first 2 ounces and 10c. for each additional 2 ounces or part of 2 ounces. The postage must be fully prepaid,
WEIGHT AND SIZE
The limits of weight are:
British Commonwealth, British Post Offices in Morocco and the
Persian Gulf Ports; Republic of Ireland, 5 lb.
Foreign countries, generally 1 lb.
The limits of size are:
British Commonwealth, 2 feet in length, 1 foot in width, 1 foot in depth.
Foreign countries 3 feet in length, width and depth combined, maximum dimensions in any one direction, 2 feet.
Packets in the form of a roll. The length and twice the diameter must not exceed 3 feet 3 inches, and the greatest dimension must not exceed 2 feet 8 inches.
DEFINITION
The use of the sample post is restricted to genuine trade samples or patterns of merchandise without saleable value. Exceptionally, the following articles are regarded as eligible for transmission by sample post:
Printers' blocks, cut-out patterns sent singly, keys sent singly, cut fresh flowers, articles of natural history (dried or preserved animals or plants, geological specimens, and so on), tubes of serum and vaccine, and pathological objects rendered innocuous by the mode of preparation and packing.
These articles, except tubes of serum and vaccine sent in the general interest by laboratories or institutions officially recognised, may not be sent for a commercial purpose.
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