Blue Book 1908 - Newton Free Library

NEWTON" BLUE BOOK 225
Rates of Postage
1st Class.—Letters, and all
mail matter sealed so that it cannot be
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examined without breaking the seal. Postage 2 cents per ounce or fraction,
for United States and British Provinces (except Newfoundland.)
At least one rate (two cents) must be prepaid to insure forwarding.
Postal cards, XJ. S. and British Provinces, one cent.
The use of the hand stamp for personal communications, as the
stamping of a receipt or credit on a bill of account, price list with prices
added in writing, matter produced by the type-writer, constitutes the
matter lst-class.
Letters and postal cards can be forwarded from one post office to another
without an additional prepayment of postage.
All other matter
can be forwarded at the request of the party addressed, when the post
age will be collected on delivery
2nd Class.—All newspapers and other periodical publications which
are issued at stated intervals, and a s frequently as four times a year,
from a known office of publication, and with a" paid list of subscribers;
rate 1 cent per lb., and is for the be ne fit of publishers and news agents
and of dealers only.
Publications of this character can be mailed by
the public at the rate of 1 cent for each 4 ounces or fraction; full prepayment
of postage compulsory.
3rd Class.—Books (printed), circulars, labels, photographs, prool
sheets, and corrected proof sheets and MS copy accompanying the same,
blank checks, drafts, insurance policies and other legal papers, hand bills,
posters, and all matter of the same general character.
Rate, 1 cent for
each two ounces or fraction; full prepayment of postage compulsory.
Seeds, cuttings, roots, bulbs, etc., may be forwarded in the mails of the
United States, with postage prepaid at third class rate, but matter of
this nature for Canada must be pre paid at 4th class rates.
The date
of issue, name of the addressed, th e name of the sender, may be written
on a circular, or the correction ot a typographical error, without subjecting
it to letter rate. Reproductions from hectograph, papyrograph,
and electric pen, may be sent through mails as 3rd class matter.
The
limit of the weight of packages of this class is four pounds, except in
case of single volumes of a book,to which there is no limit of weight.
4th Class.—Patterns, address tag s , bill heads, letter heads, playing
cards, blotting paper bearing p^ted advertisements,
merchandise, metals,
and all other matter not included in the first, second and third
classes. Rate, one cent for each ou nCe or fraction. Full prepayment of
postage compulsory.
The limit of weight of packages of this class is
four pounds.
The sender may attach to such articles, by tags or label,
any marks, numbers, names or letters, for purpose of description.
Unmailable.—All packages containing poisons, explosives, substances
exhaling bad odor, liquids ('ardent,vinous, spirituous or malt), obscene
matter
of any description, dunning notices on postal cards, and all articles
which from their nature are liable to damage the mails or injure
any person handling the same, cannot be forwarded.