The correspondence of depositors with Post Office Savings Bank as well
as with the Receiving Offices and with the Post Office management is
always post-free, even in the case of a registered letter.
This favour however has no application to the sending of certificates
of stock or with reference to money transactions which result from the
purchase and collection of the interest on the stock, nor does it apply
to notices forwarded of their declared value, with the sole exception
of the deposit-book being sent by letter with the declared value for
the purchase of stock in the funds.
The correspondence of the Post Office Savings Bank and its organs with
the depositors is with reference to orders to addresses designated free
from the tax of 1 kreutzer the letter, a tax appointed with reference
to the post offices not dependent on the Treasury and to rural post
offices, and in connection with the collection of registered letters
also to those dependent on the Treasury.
The memorials addressed to the Post Office Savings Bank, to the
Post Office authorities and their organs by depositors their legal
successors, or authorised representatives, as well as the acts of
conveyance mentioned in article 6 of the law of May 28^{th} 1882 are
stamp and duty free. The interests of the savings deposits are in like
manner exempt from the Income Tax and from any future tax coming in its
place.
The deposit-book as well as the forms necessary in giving instructions
in business transactions with the Post Office Saving Bank will be
supplied to depositors gratuitously.