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RATES OF POSTAGE

SMALL PACKETS

All destinations. 75 cents for the first 10 ounces, 15 cents for each additional 2 ozs. or part of 2 ozs.

WEIGHT AND SIZE

The limit of weight is 2 lb.

The limits of size are:

Packets other than in the form of a roll

Maximum

3 feet in length, width and depth combined, but the greatest dimension must not exceed 2 feet.

Minimum

4 inches in length, 24 inches in width.

Packets in the form of a roll

Maximum

The length and twice the diameter combined must not exceed 3 feet 3 inches and the greatest dimension must not exceed 2 feet 8 inches.

DEFINITION

The Small Packet post is specially provided for the transmission of goods, whether dutiable or not, in the same mails as Printed Papers, which as a rule travel more quickly than the parcel mails.

PACKING AND ADDRESS

Small Packets must be packed so that they may be easily examined. The sender must show his name and address on the outside of the packet, and must mark the packet conspicuously Small Packet in the top left-hand corner of the address side.

Articles likely to cause injury to officers of the Post Office or to damage other postal packets must be packed in accordance with the regulations, sec section dealing with packing and make-up.

POSTING

Small Packets may be posted in a posting box or handed over the counter. They may be registered but not insured.

ADMISSIBLE ARTICLES

Phonograph discs and tapes or wires bearing sound recordings other than spoken messages (in the sense of verbal personal communications), for example, recordings of music.

INADMISSIBLE ARTICLES

Articles prohibited from the letter post are also excluded from transmission in Small Packets. The following also may not be sent in Small Packets :

Coin; bank-notes, currency notes; securities of any kind and instruments payable to bearer; platinum, gold or silver, manufactured or not, precious stones; jewels and other valuable articles; postage stamps whether cancelled or not, or any paper representing a monetary value; letters, notes or documents having the character of actual and personal correspondence, but an open invoice reduced to its essential elements as well as a copy of the name and address of the sender and the addressee may be enclosed.

EXTENT OF THE SERVICE

Small Packets may be sent to the places indicated by the entry Small Packets under the country of destination in Section II of this Guide.

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