Postal_Guide_July_1957 — Page 17

PRINTED PAPERS

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RATES OF POSTAGE

Hong Kong, China and Macau. 5 cents for the first 2 ounces and 5 cents for each additional 2 ozs. or part of 2 ozs.

All other destinations.

2 ozs. or part of 2 ozs.

WEIGHT AND SIZE

15 cents for the first 2 ounces and 10 cents for each additional

The limit of weight is normally 64 lb.

Exceptionally the limit of weight for a single printed volume is 11 lb.

The limits of size are:

Packets other than in the form of a roll

Maximum

British Commonwealth, territories under British Trusteeship, British Post Offices in the Persian Gulf; Burma, Israel, Jordan and Sudan (Republic of). 2 feet in length, 18 inches in width, 18 inches in depth.

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

Minimum

All destinations. 4 inches in length, 24 inches in width.

Packets in the form of a roll

Maximum

All destinations. 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

A packet which is admissible at the printed paper rate in the inland post is not necessarily admissible at that rate in the British Commonwealth and foreign post. For example, receipts, invoices and statements of account, which are admissible at the printed paper rate if addressed to places in this Colony, are only admissible as printed papers in the British Commonwealth and foreign service when they are in blank; when filled in, such documents for places abroad fall into the category of Commercial Papers.

In general, the printed paper rate in the British Commonwealth and foreign post applies to all impressions or copies obtained upon paper or other similar material, parchment or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, mimeography, photography, or other readily recognizable mechanical process, except those obtained by means of the typewriter, tracing and hand stamps with or without movable type.

Printed matter which bears any marks whatever, capable of constituting a correspond- ence or, with the exceptions mentioned under the heading Additions and Alterations, the text of which has been modified after printing, is not admissible at the printed paper rate in the British Commonwealth and foreign service.

MAKE-UP

Packets of printed papers should be clearly marked in the upper left-hand corner of the address side 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 container or in an unclosed envelope furnished with blunt clips easy to unfasten and refasten; or they may be secured with a string easy to untie. Printed matter of the form and substance of a card may be sent unenclosed without wrapper, envelope, or fastening, and must then conform to the conditions for postcards except as regards postage rate and maximum dimensions. Similary, 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.

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 the paragraph headed "Trap" packets, under "PROHIBITIONS, Embarassing Packets."