POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 53, 6 June 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES.

Letters and Letter Cards Inland (including Cook Islands), Id for earn Joz. or fraction thereof, and id for each succeeding 2oz, Nnited Kingdom, British possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt. Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siam. Servia, and Postal Agencies m Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each uz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2i<i for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and lid for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof.

Post Cards.—lnland. single, id ; reply, Id; all other places, single, Id; reply 2d.

Printed Papers (including Books and Magazines, not registered).—All places, per 2oz. Magazines (registered), inland, id for every Boz. or fraction thereof. Foreign, jd per 2oz. or fraction thereof One end must be left open, Commercial fapurs. —Town (.for accounts, etc., only) id for 2ozs.. or Id for first 4oz. and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland. Id for first 40z.. and id for each succeeding 2az. All other places lOoz. 2id and id for every additional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets.— ln land, id first 2oz. or fraction thereof; over 2oz. as for “all other places.” All other places, Id first 40z., every additional 2oz. or fraction id. Registration. —2d additional for all places. War Tax.- -id additional, is required on all the above. Newspapers. —Town and Inland id each, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Indir Jamaica. Natal, Orange River, Soiah Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If under Boz. sent by first available route; over Boz. sent by direct steamer only ; unless specially addiessed and paid at rate of Id for first 4oz. and id tor each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz. and Ll ' w )ch extra 2oz.

TELEPHONES. Cnargos.—At Exchanges continuous. |y open —Business establishments. £' : private residences, £o per j annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £5. , Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open ail day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from h a.m. to 5 Pmmonev orders, plus telegraph charge. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New 55eul«ind, not exceed'

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