New Zealand Gazette – 1910 – No. 3

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✨ Postal Regulations

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The stamping of the "reply" part by stamps of the country which has issued the card is only valid if the two parts of the reply post-card arrive adherent from the country of origin, and if the "reply" part is sent from the country in which it has arrived by post to the destination of the said country of origin. If these conditions are not fulfilled it is treated as an unstamped post-card.
If the conditions applying to single post-cards are infringed, reply-cards are treated as letters.

Irregular or Unpaid: Prohibitions.

Any post-card exhibiting anything of an obscene, libellous, or obviously objectionable character will be detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office. Persons posting obscene, libellous, or grossly offensive cards are liable to punishment by law.
Post-cards infringing any of the above rules, except the last, are treated as letters.
Post-cards posted insufficiently prepaid or unpaid (such as private cards or post-cards not issued by New Zealand, or cards which have already been used for transmission) will be charged double deficiency at post-card rates. (See “Spent Post-cards,” page 24; “Imitation Postage-stamp,” page 41; “Tree-leaves,” see United Kingdom in Table on page 19, column 6).
Post-cards bearing imitation postage-stamps are not permitted to pass through the post, but are sent to the Dead Letter Office for disposal.

Private Cards.

Private cards, including pictorial cards, bearing adhesive stamps may also be used as post-cards. They must be composed of ordinary cardboard not thicker than that used for post-cards of the post-card pattern, and sufficiently stout not to hinder manipulation. The size must not be more than 5½ in. by 3½ in., and not less than 4 in. by 2½ in. Single cards and reply-cards for places within New Zealand may be entirely plain, but reply-cards for places beyond New Zealand must bear the words “Post-card with Reply Paid,” and “Reply Post-card.” To other than English-speaking countries these words must appear in French, “Carte Postale avec Réponse Payée,” “Carte Postale-Réponse.” They are otherwise treated like officially issued post-cards.
Private cards will be received from the public, and impressed with the half-penny or the penny postage-stamp. The rates for such impressing are the same as for embossing envelopes, which see under “Postage and Revenue Stamps, &c.” (page 37).

BOOK-POST.

The book-post is divided into two classes : (A) Commercial Papers, and (B) Printed Papers. For transmission by book-post as a “commercial paper” or “printed paper” an article must be posted either without a cover or in a cover entirely open at one or both ends, or in an open envelope with the flap turned inside.
NOTE.—Letters will not pass as commercial papers even if they are sent in open covers The only way to send a letter is by letter-post, or by writing it on a post-card or on a letter-card. Writing in commonly unknown characters such as Chinese, &c., will render the packet liable to letter rates of postage.
Postal packets containing matter prepared in raised characters for the use of the blind, addressed to or sent by institutes for the blind, or to or by public libraries, are not subject, to postage. The nature of the contents should be indicated on the cover.

(A.) COMMERCIAL PAPERS.

Rates of Postage.

Definition.

Commercial papers include all papers or documents written or drawn wholly or partly by hand (except letters or communications of the nature of letters, or other papers or documents having the character of an actual and personal correspondence). Any expression in the following table referring to print or printing shall be held to include type-printing, engraving, lithography, or autography, &c., easy to recognise. The expression “writing” shall be held to include type-writing as well as ordinary script.
The following documents, provided they conform to the conditions, are regarded as commercial papers:-

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