Between 2 and 4 ounces 10 ”
” 4 and 8 ” 20 ”
” 8 ounces and 1lb. 40 ”
A Book Packet may contain any number of separate books, publications,
works of literature and art, almanacs, maps or prints, photographs,
daguerreotypes when not on glass, or in frames containing glass; any
quantity of paper, vellum or parchment, (to the exclusion of letters;)
and the books, maps, papers, &c., may be either written, printed, or
plain, or any mixture of the three; and may be either British, Colonial
or Foreign.
Book Packets must be open at _both ends_ or _both sides_.
Parcel Post.
Under 1lb. 25 Cents.
Between 1lb and 2lbs. 50 ”
” 2lbs. and 3lbs. 75 ”
_Registration Fee, 5 Cents._
Parcels sent by Post may contain books, daguerreotypes, photogr’phs,
printers’ proof and copy, military returns, states and rolls containing
written figures and signatures, returns, deeds, legal papers, and all
transmissions of a like character, not being strictly letters.
Registration.
No Letter, Book, Parcel, or Packet of any kind whatever, can in future be
received for registration unless both postage and registration fee are
fully prepaid.
PATTERN AND SAMPLE POST WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM.
The following modifications have been introduced in the Regulations for
the transmission of Samples and Patterns of Merchandize between Canada
and the United Kingdom.
1st. It has hitherto formed part of the Imperial Post Office
Regulations that “_Samples or Patterns must not be of intrinsic
value_” but in consequence of the difficulty that has been
experienced in determining what is, and what is not, a Pattern or
Sample of Merchandize of intrinsic value, this prohibition has
been removed.
The modification is a verbal one, and will not alter nor enlarge in any
way, the character of the transmissions permitted to pass by Pattern Post.
The special prohibition as to intrinsic value has, it is understood, been
withdrawn, not because the question of value will not still influence a
decision as to whether an article offered for transmission by Pattern
Post is a genuine commercial Sample (or Pattern) or not, but because as a
general proviso it could not well be enforced; inasmuch as every article
whether properly a Pattern or Sample or not, has necessarily more or
less of an intrinsic value, and might be held to be amenable to a strict
construction of this prohibitory clause in the Regulation.
2nd. Samples of Seeds, Drugs, and similar articles intended for
delivery within the United Kingdom, are now allowed to be sent in
bags entirely closed, provided such bags be transparent, so that
the Officers of the Post Office may be able to satisfy themselves
of the contents.
3rd. The rule which prohibited the transmission through the Post,
as Patterns, of articles of cutlery, &c., has been rescinded; and
scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch
machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore and such like
articles, are now allowed to be forwarded by the Post as Samples,
provided they be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to
afford complete protection to the contents of the Mail Bags, and
to the persons of the Officers of the Post Office. Such articles,
however, must be so packed that they may be easily examined; and
it is made a rule that any packet containing such articles which
may be found to be insufficiently guarded, shall not be forwarded
through the Post.
4th. No packet of Patterns or Samples must exceed 24 oz. in
weight.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PATTERN AND SAMPLE POST.
A Packet of Patterns or Samples sent to France, must not exceed 18 inches
in length, width or depth; a packet to any other place abroad must not
exceed 24 inches in length or 12 inches in breadth or depth.
A Packet of Patterns or Samples sent to Germany or Belgium must not
exceed 8 ounces in weight.
None of the articles named in Rule 3, may be sent as Patterns or Samples
to any place abroad, except Germany, Belgium, and the British Colonies,
and not to those places when addressed “_viâ_ France.”
Bags entirely closed even though they may be transparent, must not be
used for the transmission of seeds to foreign parts.
W. P. HOWLAND,
_Postmaster General_.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, _Ottawa, February, 1866_.
Transcriber’s Note: The following appeared on an errata slip pasted into
the volume. The errata have been corrected.
ERRATA.--PAGE 11.
For * _Brantford_, Co. Simcoe,
Read * _Bradford_, do,
For * _Bradford_, Co. Brant,
Read * _Brantford_, do.