Page 8 - Jamaica_PO-Guide-1930

6 POST OFFICE GUIDE.
post cards may bear small labels showing the name and address of the sender a.nd th~
addrll$ee; and engravings and p}JOtoj!raphs on v~ry thin paper may be affixed to the baGk.
and left bD.Dd bo.lf of the address sidet pro\oided that they are wnplolely adh61'6!tl. News-
paper cuttings may all>o be attnched to the back and left band half or the address side. A
post card must uot be enclosed i)1 a <lOver of any kind.
Ca.rda bearing the title "Post Card," or its equi-vale.nt, a.re aurritted at. the rate for
printed matter, provided that they conform to the generul regulations res]'lecting priut.ed
papers; if they do not conform cither to these regulations or t.o the rules applicable tO·
po,st cards tl~-SIJ are trMlt•d 011 l~llers.
Cards must be mo.nufautured of ca.rdhoarcl or paper of suob consistence ss no~ to binde.r
manipulAtion.
"Blind LiteraiJJ.rtr" Packets containing papers impressed for t.be use of the blind ruay
be sent a.t the following special rate :-up to 2 lbs. 3 ozs. td; 4 lbs. 6 011s. ld; 0 lbs.
~ ozs. l!d. See also page lO,
(c) Newspapers Rnd Magazines.-Newgpape!ll printed and publi&Jed in Jamaica are
admitted to the i.nland mail at !d. per copy, irrespective of weight. In adJition to these
Any publication printed and published in the United Kingdom or in any British posses-
sion, which i.s .,., gi8/ered as a mu11papcr at the London General Post Office, is admitted
to the 111land mail at jd. per copy. All other newspapers are su}:>jeut to the rate for
Printed Pnpers, i.e., !d. for each 2 oz. of weight. In the case of Britiebpel'iudical.s !Ae
words "Registered atthe General PostOffiue &6 o. Newspaper" will usually be found ou
the oove.r or in the Absence o/ a oover on the top of ~lie 1irat pa.ge.
Magazines printed and published in Jamaica provided t-hey are issued in consecutive
numbeTS at intervals of not more than 31 days, aTe al80 admitted to tbe .Wa·nd mail at
id. per copy, irrespect;ive of weight.
(d). Printed Papers.-The following are considered a.s Printed Papers, and allowed to
pass a.s euch~-Newspnpera and periodical works, books, pamphlets, sboots of musiu,
visiting cards, addreas cards, proOfs of printing wit.h or without the relative manuscript,
engravinga,phot.ogra.pLs, and albums containing photographs, piatures, d.rawingt~, plana,
maps, catalogues, proi!Jleotuses, advertisements and notices of various kinds, printed,
engraved, lithographed or m.imeographed, and in general, all impressions <or copies
w
obtained upon paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, litho·
graphy, autbogrsphy, or any otlu!r mechanical PJ'(JCess eo.sy to reoogni.se except transfttr&
attd the lyp~ncril-8r.
Reproductions elf a manuscript or type\\Titten ori~PDu.l, when they are obtained by a
mechanical manllolding process (c)lronoJ!11lp.Y, &c.) are •·lassed with printed papers; but
in order to pass at the reduced postage, these reproductions must. be brought to the
counter of a Post Office to the number of at len.8t tlllll'IIIU copil!ll:, pr11cisely iiJentr<·al.
Printed papers wlucb beAr nuy mtuks wbat.ever, capable of constituting a conventional
language or, sa.ve the exueptions speci.fil'al.ly authorised below, those of whlch the text
has been rooclilied after printing, cannot be sent af, the reduced rate appliuabiiJ to printed
matter.
It is allowed:-
(1) to add in ruanusoript, on printed visiting cards and also on Christmas and New
Year Cards the address or the sender, hla title, a.s well a.s any forruula of courtesy,
e."qlressed in five words at moat or by means or conventional initials (p.f., &c.) i
(2) to enclose the "copy" with corr~>otPd proofs, and to make in Lhose proofs alteru--
tions and additions concerned with corrections, fonn, and printing. In case of
want o£ space these additions may be made on separate sbeeta;
(3) to correct also errors in printing in printed doeument.s other than proois;
(4) to insert or corroot in mauuscript or by a mecha.nicul process 'figures in prices cu~
re.ut, tenders for advertisements, swck ami share lists, mo.rket quotations, trade
oiroulars and prospectuses, '.Ill well as t.he t.ravel.ler's name, the date, time llJld
place of his intended vis1t, and the address a.t which be is staying, in travellers'
ll.Dllouncem en ts;
(5) to indicate in Dlanuscript in advi()es of the departures llJld arrivals of ships, t.he
date and time of ~hose departures I.Uld arrivals, as well as the names or the altips
and the pom of departure and arrival;
(6) to add a written dedication consisting simply of an e.~rt>Sl!ion of regard on books,
pamphlets, newspapers, photographs, engravings, sheets of music, D.Dd in 1re11eral
on all literary or artist.ic productioxts, priut.ed, engTaved, lithographed or milu~­
graphed, as well a.s to enclose the relative invoice;