✨ Postal Regulations
Jan. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 23
(B.) PRINTED PAPERS (INCLUDING BOOKS).
- The postage for printed papers, except newspapers, is—
To any place within or beyond New Zealand, excepting Queensland ... ... ... ... ... ½d. per 2oz. or fraction thereof.
To Queensland
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Printed books, pamphlets, printed music, photographs, and generally anything printed and published in book form, excepting catalogues and reports of societies or companies
} 1d. per 4oz. or fraction thereof.
{
Catalogues, reports of societies or companies, and other articles defined as Printed Papers (see under “Definition”)
} 1d. per 2oz. or fraction thereof.
- Copies of Hansard, if enclosed in the authorised wrapper, will be sent free of charge to any place within the colony.
Definition.
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Printed papers generally comprise all impressions or copies obtained on paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, autography, or any other mechanical process easy to recognise, except the copying-press or type-writer; anything, not of glass, usually attached or appurtenant to any of the under-mentioned articles in the way of binding, mounting, or otherwise; and anything convenient for their safe transmission by post. No writing whatever is allowed on printed papers, except as specified hereafter.
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Cards bearing the inscription “Post-card” are not accepted at the rate for “printed papers.”
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For places within New Zealand and Australia obliterated postage-stamps, if registered, may be sent at printed-paper rates of postage, but, with the one exception that stamped and addressed single envelopes or single post- or letter-cards to be used for replies may be enclosed with circulars, &c., packets of uncancelled stamps must be paid for at registered-letter or parcel rates. For all other countries postage-stamps, whether obliterated or not, and all printed articles or stamps constituting the sign of a monetary value, are excluded from transmission as printed papers, and must bear letter or parcel rates of postage.
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The following is a list of the more prominent articles accepted as “Printed Papers”:
| Description of Article. | Remarks. |
|---|---|
| Books, magazines, &c. (stitched or bound), drawings, engravings, fashion-plates, maps, printed music, notices of all kinds entirely printed, paintings, papers impressed for the use of the blind or cardboard drawing-models stamped in relief, photographs and albums containing photographs, pictures, plans, valentines Christmas or other seasonable or complimentary cards | A dedication may be written on books, sheets of music, photographs, and engravings, and the invoice relating to any such work enclosed. |
| A complimentary or conventional remark, and the names and addresses of the sender and addressee may be written. (For example: “To John Smith, with best wishes from Mary Smith, Christmas, 1898.”) Cards bearing communications such as “Write soon,” “Hoping to see you shortly,” &c., must be paid for at letter rates. | |
| Cards of invitation, notices of meetings | The name of the person invited, and the date, object, and place of the gathering, may be added in manuscript. In notices of meeting of Friendly and other Societies the amount of any subscription due may also appear in writing. |
| Visiting-cards | The address and title of the sender, as well as good wishes, congratulations, thanks, condolences, or other formulæ of courtesy, expressed in five words at most, may be added in writing. |
| Travellers’ cards | Cards to be not larger in size than 5½in. x 3¾in., and not less than 3¼in. x 2¼in., merely advising customers of the intended visit of the traveller. The name of the traveller, the place 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, whether printed or written, 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. Cards may be folded, and when folded must conform with the above measurement. |
| 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. |
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