[Sidenote: To U.K.]
" " " " United Kingdom 12-1/2 "
[Sidenote: On parcels.]
On parcels to any part of Canada 5 cents.
[Sidenote: To B. Col. and Foreign Countries.]
The registration fees on letters to British Colonies and Foreign
Countries will be found in the tables on pages 36, 37, 38, 39, and 40.
[Sidenote: Certificate of posting to be given.]
Every letter or parcel containing value should be registered and
presented to the Postmaster or his clerk and a receipt obtained
therefor. On no account should it be dropped into a letter box.
[Sidenote: Pre-payment.]
When letters are registered for the United Kingdom, for Foreign
Countries, <i>via</i> England, or for the United States, both the postage and
the registration fee must be pre-paid.
[Sidenote: Books, &c., cannot be registered.]
Books, periodicals, newspapers, circulars, and other printed matter,
cannot be registered unless pre-paid the full letter rates, in addition
to the ordinary registration fee.
[Sidenote: Receipt required on Delivery.]
Registered letters and packets can only be delivered to the parties to
whom they are addressed or to their order, and a receipt must be given
on the delivery of each registered letter in a book kept by every
Postmaster for that purpose.
[Sidenote: Post office not responsible for loss.]
It should be clearly understood that the post office is not responsible
for the safe delivery of a registered letter or parcel. The registration
simply makes its transmission more secure, by rendering it practicable
to trace it, when passing from one place to another in Canada, from its
receipt to its delivery; and when addressed from any place in Canada to
any place in the United States, the United Kingdom, or parts abroad, if
not to its delivery, at least to the frontier or port of despatch.
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