Postal_Guide_September_1961 — Page 8

4 General Information

Postage Prepaid in money

Postage Meter (Franking Machines) Reply Coupons

No additional charge, the amount to be prepaid must not be less than $10.00.

A licence must be obtained although no fee is payable.

International

Commonwealth

Sale price 75c.

35c.

Surrender value, Hong Kong

40c., Postage stamp

20c..

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POSTAGE STAMPS, REGISTERED LETTER ENVELOPES, AEROGRAMMES AND REVENUE STAMPS, ETC.

The following values of stamps and stamped stationery are on sale at all Post Offices : Stamps may also be obtained from certain persons or firms to whom the Postmaster General has issued a licence.

POSTAGE STAMPS

5c., 10c., 15c., 20c., 25c., 30c., 40c., 50c., 65c.. $1, $1.30, $2, $5, $10.

REVENUE AND RECEIPT STAMPS

15c.

REGISTERED LETTER ENVELOPES

Embossed with 40c. registration fee on the flap:

"G" size 5% in. by 4 in. at 60c.; "H" size 8 in. by 5 in. at 70c. "K" size 114 in. by 6 in. at 90c.

AEROGRAMMES (LIGHT AIR LETTER FORMS)

Printed with 50c. stamp, at 50c.

REPLY COUPONS

International 75c.;

Commonwealth 35c.

STAMPS

MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS

USE OF POSTAGE STAMPS. It is not part of the duty of Post Office staff to affix stamps to mail, nor to provide gum or sealing wax.

IMPERFECT OF DEFACED STAMPS are not valid for payment of postage. Stamps are cancelled by the Post Office as evidence of service rendered, and the re-use of stamps with intent to defraud is a punishable offence. Perforations are however permitted, see Perforation with initials.

Stamps should be affixed to the top right-hand corner of the address side of the envelope or wrapper. When stamps are so affixed that one stamp overlaps another, concealing part of its surface, the stamp thus covered is not taken into account and the item may be treated as underpaid.

PERFORATION WITH INITIALS. Postage stamps may be perforated with initials (but not with names or trade marks) provided that the perforating holes are no larger than those dividing one stamp from another in a sheet of stamps. The work of perforating postage stamps with initials cannot be undertaken by the Post Office. OBSOLETE STAMPS. Postage stamps issued in the reigns of Queen Victoria, Kings Edward VII and George V, the 1941 issue, "Centenary of British Occupation", the 1946 issue, "Victory Commemorative", the 1948 issue, "Royal Silver Wedding", and the 1949 issue, "Universal Postal Union" are no longer valid for the payment of postage, and are not repurchased by the Post Office.

USE OF CUT-OUT POSTAGE STAMPS. Embossed or impressed postage stamps cut out from envelopes, postcards or letter forms may be used as adhesive stamps in payment of postage charges provided they are not imperfect, mutilated or defaced in any way. Revenue stamps cannot be used for payment of postage. Embossed or impressed stamps indicating the payment of a registration fee may only be used for registered correspondence. The OFFICIAL PAID design which is used on official stationery is not valid if cut out from the cover, label or form on which it is printed.