✨ Postal Regulations
1828
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52
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| Description of Document. | Conditions. |
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| Affidavits, briefs, deeds, depositions, powers of attorney, recognisances, scrip | Nothing to appear in writing or print which does not form part of the document as a legal instrument. |
| Demands for rates or calls ... ... | Nothing to appear beyond the name of the local body or the company issuing the notice and a demand for the amount due, together with extracts from any Act or Articles of Association fixing penalties for non-payment, &c. |
| Manuscript for press, manuscript sermons ... | Any written or printed matter not forming part of the document must refer solely to the arrangement of the type. The covers must be marked “Manuscript for press,” &c. |
| Packets of old or spent letters or post-cards | The letters or postcards must clearly have served their original purpose, and must be at least two months old. Diaries are not accepted as commercial papers. |
| Proposals and policies of insurance and proof of loss, private friends’ and medical reports concerning proposals for insurance, returns of banks, public companies, &c., proxy forms (added to in manuscript or in typewriting), *pass-books, cheque-books, stock-sheets, balance-sheets (unless wholly printed). (Cheque-books for the United Kingdom must be prepaid at letter rates of postage.) | The document, as a rule, to consist of a printed form. Any written matter on such document to consist merely of information or statements appropriate to the form and necessary to the completion of the document. |
| Specifications (with and without plans), examination papers, pupils’ exercises with corrections but without comment thereon, copy drawings which are pupils’ exercises, paintings, written music | Any written or printed matter not forming part of the document itself must relate exclusively to its subject-matter. |
(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.
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,” except as indicated in section 12, page 5.
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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.
For postage on bank pass-books open to inspection see section 15, page 11.
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