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22 POST OFFICE GUIDE,
Bn1~TOL J.utAICt..-CosTA RlCA.-PAN.UiA SERVICE: An Elders and Fytres' sten.mer leaves-
Brist.ol every alternate Monday calling nt the following ports:-
Kingston(arrives 1\lld leaves Mond~y), Lirnon, Cristobal, Kingston (arrives and leave&
Monday), Bristol (~n-ivea Mouda.y)-a round voyage of five weeks.
Elders nod Fylies Ltd., mo.intain a further service with the United Kingdom, but as
the sailing days and routes of these boats vary somewhat acuordiug to t.he season or the
w
year tbeir movements carutot be reduced to the precision of 1.1 schedule.
The following is the schedule of the Canadian Oov~.<rnmeut Mert•haot ~lariue mnil-
carrying stearu~rs:-
C.toN<~.DA-BFJlMliDA-NASSAli-JAMAlCA-.BRITISH HoNot.illA:'i SERVTCE: A steamer le1wes
Montreal every t.hree weeks on WPClnesJ~*y, aud ca.l.ls at the following pons:-
Haruillon, N~u, Kingston (arrives Thursday, leave.: Friday), Belize. returning to-
Kingstou on thr. following Friday Md SAiling same day vit\ Na~au aud Bermuda for
Mont.real (arriving Friday), a round voyage of 37 days.
Du.rlut,~ the winter moulhs the same schedule is maintuiued every three weeks I'XI•t•pL
tllLlt IJ.1e steamers leave from Halif:~:. on Sat.urday !l-nd ret urn thither on Tuesday, ~H
days after, arriving and sailing from illngston •In the same dt~Y of the week as on th&
SUlDmer service.
A Jamaica Fruit and Shipping Compuny's flteamer leaves Kingston tot New York
every Tuesday; and an Atlahtic Fruit Company's ste~mer leaves Port Antonio for New
York or Philadelybia every Tuesday.
AVEllAGE FREQUENCY OF S:ERV(CES.
Country. Recei:vals froru. DispMches lO.
u. s. or America Three uvery week t Seven every roctuigbt.
Cnnu.da. Two every week. do.
Uuited Kingdom Two every week (directsnd via Five every fortnight. (direct and
N.Y.) via ~.Y.)
Central A.rnerica Two to three every fortnight. One every week.
Cubn Doe every week. Three evM'Y forlnight.
ClA55IFKATIOM OF MAIL
Foreigu Correspondence is dh-ided int.o tbe following classes:-
(a) letters (b) Post-cal'ds, (o) Printed Papers. (d) Commercial Papers. (e) Samples,
(f) Parcel-Post Parcels.
For the Rates of Postage on aU ciJisses of mail-mlltler, limits of weight and site, &c.,
see 'fable, page 33.
(a) letters posted wholly unpaid nr insufficiently prepaid are forwarded, bur. Me
charged on delivery with double the deficiency.
Unpaid and iiL·ufficiently prepuid lett.er:s from plaot!S abroad are charged double the
deficient postage.
Letters or p>l(;knges paid at the letter rate of postage recoived rrom abt·oa.d suspected
to contain IU't.icles liable to customs duty aro detained under authority ()( t.he PO!:!t.a.l
Uniuu Convenlioo pending inquiry n.nd the payment by the addressee of any duW leviable.
(b) Post Cards: See Inland Regulatioa11, p. ·1.
(c) (d) Printed and Commercial Papl!rs: For definition uf, und rules governing thes~
see IolwJd Regulations pp. 5 and 11. •
(e) Samples: The use of t.he Sample t>ost is restricted to (l bona-fide Lrade sanJples
or patterns of mercll&ndise without. sa.leable vallle. and (2) ot~tura.l history speciwcus,
dried or preserved animals and plants, geological specimens. and scientific speci eo. gene-
rally, keys, fresh flowers, t.ubes or se1·uw and pat.hological apeuimens rendered inocuolla
by their mode of preparatJon nnd packing, when sent fur no cornmerciul purpose, nod
prin~era' blooks "'hen not for sale or in e,Xijcution of an order. Packef.s containing good~
for sale or conshr;ued in execution of an Ol'der (however smaU ~be quantity) or arlicle8 81ml'
bv 01111 prit•ate fudit>idual tn another which. are not 1u:luaUy tratk «amples or patterns or
scientific speuiruen.s, etc., cannot be forwarded \ly sample post.
lt is recommended thAt every Slltl.lple should be marked ''Sample-not (or sa.le," or
Tlte ittland rate of postage ou "printed" •u•d "commercial''paper.ds th~ same, but the for<il('fl rat•
<>n "commercint" papal'! differs from lbe intan<lr:~te, see o. SS. The ditrereucoa between t.betwo etasse"'
of maU eboutd lle carefully notod for thnt ti/Ul!On.
tTwo ftom Now York and one from New Orleaus.