✨ Postal Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 95
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(B.) PRINTED PAPERS (INCLUDING BOOKS).
- The postage for printed papers, except newspapers, is—
To any place within or beyond New Zealand … { ½d. 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 undermentioned 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.” (See section 10 below.)
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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. |
| Cards of invitation, notices of meetings … | 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. 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. |
| Cards, pictorial or plain… … … | May not bear the word “Post-card” unless it be plainly struck out, and may not be used to make any communication of the nature of a letter. Must bear the words “Printed matter.” |
| Labels, blank or printed … … … | In packets. |
| 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. |
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NZ Gazette 1903, No 95
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Revising Postal Regulations and Postage Rates under the Post Office Act 1900
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🚂 Transport & Communications10 December 1903
Postal Regulations, Postage Rates, Printed Papers, Post Office Act 1900, Books, Magazines, Maps, Music, Photographs, Stamped Cards