Page 29 - Jamaica PO Guide 1924

I'OST OFFICE HANDBOOK. 2T
Elders and Fyffes Ll:d. maintain n further service with the United Kingdom, ..
but as the sailing days and routes of these boats vary somewhat according to the season"
of the year their movements Cltnnot be reduced to the pr·ecision of a schedule.
In addition to the regular weekly closing on Saturdays for New York by the United
Fruit Co.'s steamers, a mail for the U.S.A. is made up every T uesday for de~patch (via
Port Antonio) by one of the AtlanLic Fruit Co.'s. steamers.
The services maintained by the steamship companies named above provides, on all>
average, J,wo weekly receivals frorn aud five fortnightly despat.ches to the U.S.A.,...
Canada, :1nd Europe, !tnd one weekly receival from and despatch to Central America.
CLA55If'ICATION Of' MA IL
Foreign Correspondence is divided into the following classes:-
(a) Letters (b) Post-cards, (c) Printed Papers, (d) Commercial Papers, (e) Samples, _
(f) Pa.rcel Post Parcels.
For the Rates of Postage on all classes of mail-matt.er, limits of weight and size, &c., _
see Table, page 38.
(a) Letters posted wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid are forwarded, but are-
charged on delivery with double the deficiency.
Unpaid and insuf!ici<'ntly prepaid letters from places abroad are charged double the ·
deficient postage.
Letters or pa.ckages paid at the letter rate of postage received from abroad suspected
to contnio ar: icl:s liable to customs duty are rletaioed under authority of the Postal ·
Union Convention pending inquiry and the payment by the addressee of any duty
leviable.
(b) Post Cards: See Inland Regulations, p. 3.
(c) (d) Prinled and Commercictl Pcpers : For definition and description of these set-
Inland Regulations pp. 4 and 5*
(e) Samples : The use ,,f the Sample Post is restricted to (1) bona-fide trade samples
or pat·terns of merchandi~e without saleable value, and (2) natural history specimens,
dried or preserved !l.nimals and plants, geological specimens, and scientific specimens gene- -
rally, key.•, fresh flowers, tubes of sen;m and pathological specimens rendered innocuous.
by t·heir mode of preparation and packing, when sent for no commercial purpose, and
primers' blocks. Packets containing goods for sale or consigned in execution of !In order
(however small the quantity) or atlicles sent by one private individual to another which
are no! actually trade sam7Jles )r patterns or scientific specimens, &c., cannot be forwarded
by sample post.
It is recommended that every sample should be marked "Sample-not for sale," or-·
otherwise defaced in such a way as to render the Brticle unsaleable in the ordinary way ofr'
trading.
l'ar.ka.ges of printed and commercial papers and samples 1f only partly prepaid wiln
be chargeable on delivery with double the deficiency ; if wholly unpaid, they wi!l not be
forwarded.
The privilege of not prepaying or of prepaying partially does not a7Jply to letters, post-
cards, or to o/her article.; .~ent with the evident intention of avoiding payment of postage.
U~pecial regulations ns to certain articles.-Though under the regulations of the Postal
Dlon a;ticles l.iable to Cmtmns Duty may o~ly be se~t by the Par?el or the Insured Parcel '
111 o.st, th1s rule 1s relaxed for samples in certam countnes. In some mstances samples liabJe
to customs duty are deliYered either free or on payment of the duty, but in others they
may be :withheld from delivery. Samples of tea exceeding eight ounces in gross weight
jre no~~~ any case accepted for transmission abro~d; and some countries have fixed a stilL'
ower li.m1t both for tea and for certain other articles. Samples liable to customs duty
are ordinarily admitted into the United Kingdom when sent in quantities so small !IS to ·
~avepraetically no saleable value ; but the importa.tion of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, &c., by
ample Post is prohibited, with the sole exceJ?tion of packets of type samples of un-
manufactured tobacco not exceeding six ounces m gross weight, which are delivered on
payment of 2-s. 6d. customs duty. . '
r Sa.mples of Spirits (except perfl;lmed spirits) .~a~ .he sent to the United Kinp:doms--
t bVll ded th!lt the samples are plamly marked Spw~l$ (nr,t perjumerl)." Each packet iil··
a e to a charge of 3s. 6d. customs duty. Samples of wine !Ire admitted free of custom.
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~.The nland rate of POStage on printed, and u conunercial" papers is the same, but the jorei,r:rn rate ·
00 commercial" papers differs from the inland rate, see p. 38.