The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles from 1840 to 1876 - John Hendy (1909)

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Fig. 185. Fig. 186. Fig. 187. Fig. 188.
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Fig. 189. Fig. 190. Fig. 19].
The postage on newspapers had to be prepaid either by an adhesive stamp or by
the use of a stamped wrapper, but a special arrangement was made with the Post
Office by two newspapers, the London Tunes and the Stamford Mercury, under which
they were allowed to bear an obliterated postage stamp impressed on the newspaper
itself, as stated in the following notice :
"On and after the ist October (1870), certain copies of the London Times and of
the Stamford Mercury Newspapers will bear an obliterated postage stamp impressed
on the Newspaper itself, but this impressed stamp will be available for such copies only
as are posted at the General Post Office, London, or at the Head Post Office in
Stamford respectively.
" The postage on copies of the Times or Stamford Mercury posted elsewhere must
be prepaid either by a halfpenny postage label or a stamped Newspaper Wrapper,
otherwise they must be charged with Postage."
Fig. 192 is a specimen of the mark used by the Stamford Mercury which bears the
obliteration number of Stamford.
Fig. 192.
Under the Act y:, and 34 Vic. c. 79 no newspaper could be sent by post in the United
Kingdom as a newspaper unless it had been accepted as such by the postal authorities,
and placed on the register at the General Post Office. The fee payable on the
NOT-REGISTERED
Fig. 193.LUsed in red on Newspapers not Registered
for Transmission Abroad.
admission of a newspaper to the register was five shillings.
Registration for circulation
within the United Kingdom included registration for foreign transmission without the
payment of a second fee. Newspapers which had not been officially registered on
reaching the Post Office were impressed as in Fig. 193.