✨ Postal Regulations
274 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. No. 10
| Description of Article. | Remarks. |
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| Cards of invitation, notices of meetings ... | The name of the person invited, the date, object, and place of the gathering, may be added in manuscript. |
| Visiting-cards ... | The address and title of the sender, and conventional initials, such as "P.P.C.," may be added in writing. |
| Travellers' cards ... | Cards to be of the size of 5½in. x 3½in., and unfolded, merely advising customers of the intended visit of the traveller. The name of the traveller and the date of his visit may be inserted in writing, and a list of prices current printed on the back of the card. The list of prices may be in writing, but no other matter will be permitted. If the card is not enclosed in an envelope, the whole of one side must be reserved for the postage-stamps and the address. |
| Ships' advices ... | The date of departure may be added in writing. |
| Catalogues, prices-current, stock- and share-lists, tenders for advertisements | The prices and figures may be inserted or altered in manuscript. |
| Circulars, i.e., printed letters in identical terms posted in quantity | If produced by any other mechanical process than printing, at least twenty copies must be submitted to the post-office simultaneously for posting, and special attention called to their nature. The word "Circular" must be written or printed on the circular and on the envelope containing it. Circulars produced by the mimeograph or other kindred processes from type-written originals will be accepted for inland transmission. Inland circulars may, when posted in quantities of not less than 2,000 at one time, be prepaid in cash instead of stamps. A few hours' notice should in such case be given to the Postmaster. |
| Proofs of printing, with or without the manuscript relating thereto | Manuscript additions and alterations relating to the subject-matter or the arrangement or correction of the type may be inserted. |
In the above table expressions referring to print or printing shall be held to include any species of type-printing, engraving, lithography, or autography, &c., easy to recognise.
When Writing is permitted.
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Printed papers, of which the text has been modified after printing, either by hand or by means of a mechanical process, except as specified herein, or which bear any mark whatever of such a kind as to constitute a conventional language, cannot be sent at printed-paper rates.
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As exceptions to the above rule, it is permitted—
(a.) To indicate on the outside of the missive the name, commercial standing, and address of the sender;
(b.) To indicate or alter in a printed paper, in manuscript or by a mechanical process, the date of despatch, the signature, and the commercial standing or profession, as well as the address, of the sender;
(c.) To correct errors in printing in printed documents;
(d.) To erase certain parts of a printed text, in order to render them illegible;
(e.) To make prominent, by means of marks, passages of the text to which it is desired to draw attention;
(f.) In requisitions sent to libraries (printed and open, and intended as orders for books, newspapers, engravings, pieces of music), to indicate on the back, in manuscript, the works required or offered, and to erase or underline, on the front, the whole or part of the printed communications;
(g.) To paint fashion-plates, maps, &c. -
Additions made in manuscript, or by means of a mechanical process, which would deprive a printed paper of its general character and give it that of individual correspondence or communication, are forbidden.
GENERAL BOOK POST REGULATIONS.—APPLYING TO BOTH "PRINTED PAPERS" AND "COMMERCIAL PAPERS."
How to Pack.
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A book-packet may be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened in any way) or in a cover entirely open at one or both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination. For the greater security of the contents, however, it may be tied at the ends with string, but the string must be easy to unfasten.
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Address-cards and all printed matter of the form and substance of an unfolded card may be forwarded without wrapper, envelope, fastening, or fold. The face is reserved
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NZ Gazette 1896, No 10
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