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SAMPLES

RATES OF POSTAGE

All destinations. 15 cents for the first 2 ounces and 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, Jordan and Sudan (Republic of). 5 lb.

All other countries. 1 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, foot in width, 1 foot 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

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' plates, cut-out patterns sent unaccompanied, keys sent unaccompanied, cut fresh flowers, articles of natural history (dried or preserved animals or plants, geological specimens and so on), tubes of serum and vaccine, medicines urgently required and difficult to obtain, and pathological objects rendered innocuous by the mode of preparation and packing.

These articles, except tubes of serum and vaccine and medicines urgently required and difficult to obtain sent in the general interest by laboratories or institutions officially recognized, may not be sent for a commercial purpose.

PACKING AND ADDRESS

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 address side of the packet should be clearly marked Sample.

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. Embarrassing Packets".

Packing is not obligatory for articles consisting of one piece, such as a piece 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, preferably of parchment, must be securely attached. The same applies when the date-stamping is likely to damage the article.