Postal_Guide_January_1953 — Page 21

PACKING AND ADDRESS.

It is recommended that every sample should be indelibly marked SAMPLE: NOT FOR SALE, or otherwise defaced in such a way as to render the article unsaleable in the ordinary way of trading.

Samples must be sent in such a manner as to be easy of examination, and when practicable, must be sent in covers open at the end. The upper left-hand corner of the packet should be clearly marked SAMPLE.

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.

Packing is not obligatory for articles consisting of one piece, such as pieces of wood or metal, which it is not the custom of the trade to pack.

The address of the addressee must be indicated, as far as possible, on the packing or on the article itself. If the packing or the article itself is not suitable for the inscription of the address and service indications or for affixing the postage stamps, a tie-on label, prefer- ably of parchment, must be securely attached. The same applies when the date-stamping is likely to injure the article.

A sample enclosed in a linen or paper envelope of little strength must have a label, preferably of parchment, attached with the address of the addressee and the postage stamps in prepayment. The address should, if possible, be repeated on the article itself. In order to secure the return of a packet which cannot be delivered, the name and address of the sender should be printed or written outside the packet.

PERMISSIBLE ADDITIONS

The sender may indicate by hand or by a mechanical process, outside or inside the packet (in the latter case on the sample itself or on a special sheet of paper referring to it), the name, position, profession, style and address of the sender and of the addressee, the date of despatch, the signature, telephone exchange and number, telegraphic address and code, the postal cheque or banking account of the sender; a manufacturer's or trade mark, a brief note relating to the manu- facturer or supplier of the goods or to the person for whom the sample is intended, serial or identity numbers, prices and notes re- presenting essential elements of the price; particulars relating to weight, measurement and size, or the quantity to be disposed of, and such as are necessary to determine the origin and the character of the goods.

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SPECIAL PACKING REGULATIONS FOR CERTAIN ARTICLES

Dry colouring powders (for example,

(for example, aniline blue). These admissible only if enclosed in a stout tin box, placed inside a wooden box with sawdust between the two covers.

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