Inland Letter and Parcel Post.

It will thus be seen that a letter or parcel exceeding the weight of 12 ounces is liable to a postage of 1d. for every ounce or fraction of an ounce, beginning with the first ounce.

No letter or parcel must exceed 18 inches in length, 9 inches in breadth, or 6 inches in depth.

A letter posted unpaid will be charged on delivery with double postage, and a letter posted insufficiently prepaid will be charged double the deficiency.

Concurrently with the reduction of postage on Inland Letters, the Inland Sample Post was abolished.

Registration.

By the prepayment of a foe of fourpence, any letter, newspaper, or book-packet may be registered to any place in the United Kingdom or the British Colonies. The Post Office will not undertake the safe transmission of valuable enclosures in unregistered letters; and letters found to contain coin will, on delivery, be charged double foe.

Inland Book-Post.

The Book-Post rate is One Halfpenny for every 2 ozs, or fraction of 2 ozs.

A Book-Packet may contain not only books, paper, or other substance in ordinary use for writing or printing, whether plain or written or printed upon (to the exclusion of any written letter or communication of the nature of a letter), photographs, when not on glass or in frames containing glass or any like substance, and anything usually appertaining to such articles in the way of binding and mounting, or necessary for their safe transmission by post, but also Circulars when these are wholly or in great part printed, engraved, or litho-graphed.

Every book-packet must be posted either without a cover or in a cover open at both ends, and in such a manner as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination—otherwise it will be treated as a letter.

Any Book-Packet which may be found to contain a letter or communication of the nature of a letter, not being a Circular-letter or not wholly printed, or any enclosure sealed or in any way closed against inspection, or any other enclosure not allowed by the regulations of the Book-Post, will be treated as a Letter, and charged with double the deficiency of the Letter postage.

A packet posted wholly unpaid will be charged with double the Book-Postage; and if posted partially prepaid, with double the deficiency.

No Book-Packet may exceed 5 lbs. in weight, or 1 foot 6 inches in length, 9 inches in width, and 6 inches in depth.

Postage on Inland Newspapers.

A postage of one half-penny is charged for the transmission or each news-paper, as defined by the Act. Such newspaper posted for inland circulation must be prepaid by adhesive stamp or stamped wrapper. The prepaid rate for a packet containing two or more registered newspapers is one halfpenny for each newspaper, or, if under 2 ounces, then at the book rate of one half penny for every 2 oz., or fraction of 2oz. No packet of newspapers must exceed 2 feet in length, or 1 foot in width or depth, or 14lb. in weight.

Post Cards.

The post cards, which bear a halfpenny impressed stamp, are only available for transmission between places in the United Kingdom. The front (or stamped) side is intended for the address only. On the reverse side any communication, whether of the nature of a letter or otherwise, may be written or printed. Nothing may be attached; if the card be folded, cut, or otherwise altered, it will be charged on delivery as an under-paid letter.

Post-Office Orders.

Above which none are granted, but orders can be multiplied to any amount.

Post-Office Orders for Colonies, &c.

Post-Office Savings Banks.

By 24 Vic. cap. 14, deposits of one shilling, or of any number of shillings, or of pounds and shillings, will be received from any depositor at the Post-Office Savings Banks, provided the deposits made by such depositor in any year ending the 31st day of December do not exceed £30, and provided the total amount standing in such depositor's name in the books of the Postmaster-General do not exceed £150, exclusive of interest. When the principal and interest together, standing to the credit of any one depositor, amount to the sum of £200, all interest will cease, so long as the some funds continue to amount to the said sum of £200.

The interest is calculated to the 31st December in every year, and is then added to, and becomes part of the principal.

Telegraphic Messages.

Telegraph Messages are now sent to and from all the principal towns and villages in the United Kingdom at the uniform tariff of One Shilling for Twenty Words.