REGULATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 138, 25 April 1862, Page 4

REGULATION.

PKKI'AYJIKNT BY STAMPS. _ - All letters, packets, and newspapers posteA in New Zealand, must be prepaid by affixing postage, labels of the colony of sufficient value. , '" LOOSE LETTEBF. '. v , All letters received from beyond seas, at any Post Ofiice in this Colony, -which have not been regularly posted at the place of despatch (loose letters), tire chargeable' with full postage, accordivg to the rates established by the foregoing tables, ivnless they are letters which it is not compulsory by law to send by'post, in which ease they are chargeable with the inland rate of. postage only. INSUFFICIENT PAYMENT. ; Letters and packets liable to more than one rate of postage, and addressed to places • within the Colony, or to the United Kingdom, it bearing at least a single rate will be forwarded and charged with the postage deficient, and another single rate as a fine. Letters and packets so addressed, and bearing less than a single rate of postage, and all letters and packets otherwise addressed," not bearing the full postage chargeable, will be detained and returned to the sender in all cases where practicable. Newspapers, if posted without prepayment of the full amount of postage chargeable, can neither be forwarded to their destination nor returned to the sender ; but will be delivered or forwarded to the person addressed, on application, within six months, at the office where same were posted, and payment of the deficient postage in stamps. ■ ..' - lUJOISTItATION. , ■_ - Any person can have a lctler registered by affixing on it by means of the proper labels the amount of the registration fee, in addition to the proper postage, and presenting it at a Post Ofiice during office hours, and at least one hour before the closing of the mail by by which it is .desired to be transmitted. Every precaation will be adopted to ensure the safe delivery of a registered -letter, by entering it on the letter bills, and obtaining a.reeei'pt for the same deliycry .As the Post Office, however is not responsible for the loss of any letter, whether registered or otherwise, persons sending bank notes or drafts, arc advised to take the numbers and particulars, and to cut the notes or drafts in halves, and to rend them by different posts. . HE-DIRECTION. Letters, newspapers, and packets will be re-directed from one Post Office to another on the written instructions of the pereon addressed, but on re-direction are chargeable with a new and distidct rate of postage, to be paid on delivery. PENALTIES. ; Any person sending as exeiuptfrom postage letters not liable to exemption,,or enclosing a communication in the nature of a'letter in any newspaper or book-packet, it liable to a penalty of £20. 1 ■'.' ' " ■ ' SIZE -ASD WEIGHT. No book-packet or packet of newspapers will be received, nor will any Postmaster be required to receive any letter if it exceod two feet in length, one foot in-width or depth, or three pounds in weights. BOOK-PACKETS TO BE OPEN FOR INSPECTION. Every book-packet shall be sent open at the ends or sides, and there shall be no enclosure sealed or 6therwise closed against inspection sent iti or with such packet, nor any thing printed or written in the nature of a letter. CONTENTS. With the above limitations, a pocket-book may contain any number of separate books, maps, prints, or photograps, and any quantity of paper, veilum. or parchment, cither printed, written on, or plain, (exclusive of anything in the nature of a letter whether sealed oi open,) with the binding, covering, or mounting attached or belonging to such book, print, map, or photograph, and all things legitimately appertaining to or necessary for the transmission of any endosed literary or artistic matter, but "exclusive of glass in any foimT" The "name's arid address of the sender may appear on the cover. OVJSRLAND 'cAKIIIAGB. : No Postmaster will be required" to receive an/ baok-pnekct for transmission by an overland mail, if from its weight or any other cause the packet appear calculated 'to retai'd the carrier. CROSBIE \yAItD, Postmaster-General.