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RATES OF POSTAGE

COMMERCIAL PAPERS

Commercial Papers for Hong Kong, China and Macau are admissible at the Printed Paper rate of 5 cents for each 2 ozs.

All other destinations. 40 cents for the first 8 ounces. 10 cents for each additional 2 ozs. or part of 2 ozs.

WEIGHT AND SIZE

The limits of weight are :

British Commonwealth, territories under British Trusteeship, British Post Offices in the Persian Gulf; Burma, Israel and Jordan. 5 lb.

All other countries. 4 lb.

The limits of size are:

British Commonwealth, territories under British Trusteeship, British Post Offices in the Persian Gulf; Burma, Israel and Jordan. 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

Commercial papers comprise all papers and all documents wholly or partly written or drawn, not having the character of current and personal correspondence.

MAKE-UP

Packets of commercial papers should be clearly marked in the upper left-hand corner of the address side Commercial Papers. They are subject to examination in the post. and must be made up in such a way that they can 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.

Because 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 cover suggested in the paragraph headed "Trap" packets under, "Prohibitions, Embarassing Packets".

ADMISSIBLE DOCUMENTS

Bills of lading

Copies of or extracts from deeds under private seal written on stamped or unstamped paper

Documents of all kinds drawn up by

public officials

Invoices

Manuscripts of works or for newspapers

sent unaccompanied

Musical scores or sheets of music in

manuscript

Out-of-date correspondence (unclosed letters and postcards) which has already fulfilled its original purpose, and copies thereof

Papers of legal proceedings

Proposals and policies of insurance and formal papers necessarily incident to insurance

Pupils' exercises in original or with cor- rections, but without any note which does not relate directly to the per- formance of the work

Receipts

Statements of accounts

Way bills

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