Page 6 - Jamaica PO Guide 1924

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ment post cards may bear small labels showing tbo name and address of the sendt·r nndl
the addressee; and engravings and photographs on very thin paper may be ~ffixcd to th,.
back and left h~>nd half or the addres.• side, provided that they are com 11 rdel11 adhere~~!.
Newspaper cuttings may ~lso be attached to the back and left hand half of the address-
side. A po$t·c~r<l must r•ot be enclo ... d in n cover of unY kiud.
Cards bearing the title "Post Card, ·• or its equivalent are admitted ~t the rate for
printed ma" er, provided that they conform to the general' regulations res 1 wcting printed'
papers: if they do not conform either to these regulations or to the rules applicable to
po@t cards thnJ arc treated M letters.
Cards must be m~nufactured of cardbo~rd or paper of such consistencY ~s not to bin-
der manipulation. ·
Ill. P1i11ted Papers.- 1'he following arc considered as Printed Pnpers :1nd allowed to•
pass as such :--Newspapers und periodical works, books, prlmphlcts, ~beets of music,
visiting cards. address cards, proofs of printing with or without the relatirc manuscript,
engravings! phologmphs, and albums contnining photographs, pictures, drawings, plans,
mapo, cnt3 ogues, prospectuses, ad;·ertiscmcnts and notices of various kinds, printed,
engraved. lithographed or mimeographcd, and in general, all impres.;ions or copies,
obtained upon p:tper, pnrchmcnt, or c~rdbonrd, by means of printing. engraving, litho-
graphy, nutogmphy, or ar1y other ruech~nicnl process easy to recognise rxcept transfers
and the typewriter.
Reproductions of n manuscript or typewritten origiMI, when they 8 11' obt3ined by a
mechanical manifolding process (rbronogrnphy, ~c.) nre tre.'\ted lik~ printed papers; but
in order to p~ss at the reduced postage, these reproductions must be brought to tbe
counter of n Post Office to the number of at lcust twenty copies, precise!)' identical.
Printed papers which benr nny marks whntcvcr capabiP. of constitutin:: a conventional
language or, save the exccrtions specifically authorised below, those or which the text
has been modified after printing, cannot be sent at the reduced rate applitnble to printed'
matter,
His allowed :·-
(a) to add in manuscript, on printed visiting cards and :also on Chri•fmns and New
Year Cards th<l address of th~ sender, his title, as well as any formula of courtesy,
expressed in five words n.t most or by means of con\•cntionnl initials (p.f., &c.);
(b) to cnaloso t he '·copy" with correctoo proofs, and to make in those proofs alter&·
tions nnd additions concerned with corrections, form, and printing. In ea~ of
want of space these add1tions may be made on separate sbcets;
(c) to correct also errors in printing in printed documents other than proofs;
(d) to insert or correct in manuscript or by a mechanical process figures in prices cur-
re.nt, tenders for advertisements, stock nod share lists, market ((Uotations, trade
circuh1rs and prospPctuses, as well as the traveller''s name, the date, time and
place of his inf.(>nded visit, and the address at. which he is sl~ying. in travellers'
announcements;
(e) to indicate in manuscript in ad vices of t.be departures IUid arri\·als of ships, the
date and time of those departures and arrivals, as well as the names of the ships
and the ports of departure and arrival;
(!) to add a written dedication consisting simply of an expression of regard on booka,
pamphlets, newspapers, photographs, engravings, sheets of music, and fn general
on all literary or artistic productions, printed, engraved, lithographed or mineo·
graphed, as well as to enclose the relative invoice;
(g) to acd, in manuscript or by a mechanical process, to euttings from newspapers and
periodicals, the title, date, number, and address of the publitation from which
the article is extracted ;
(h) in forms of order or subscription for publications, books, ne"·spapers, engraving~,
pieces of music, to indicate in manuscript the works required or offered, and to
strike out or 'Underline the whole or part of the printed commu11ications.
Address cards and all printed matter of the form •nd substance of an unfolded card
may be forwarded without wrapper, envelope, fastening or fold.
The undermentioned articles are euludtd from transmission at the rate applicable to
printed papers:-
Postsge stamps, whether obliterated or not, and in generol all printed articles con·
etituting the sign of a monetary value.
Blank paper, note paper or enve!ope3 (witb, or without printed a~dre$1), and all other
&rticles of stationery pure and simple. . .
TV. Commtrcial Pap= comprise all papers or documenta wnttcn or drawn wholly or