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22 HOUSE DELIVERY.
Hill Majesly's Ships outside home waters, the rate for letters is 2d. for the first oz
anu Id. for each additional oz. Letters should be addressed:-H.M.S. (name of Rhip),
c.o. G.P.O., London, E.C. 1; if addressed direct to a foreign port, instead of C.o.
G.P.O., London, the rate will be the ordinary rate for the country of destination.
POST-CARDS J Imperial Single, 1 d. each: Reply paid, 2d. each.
l Foreign Single, 2d. each: Reply paid 4d. each.
SMALL PACKETS .. 5d. for first 10 oz. and Id. per 2 oz. thereafter.
PRINTED PAPERS . . i d. per 2 oz.
COMMERCIAL PAPERS 3d. for first 12 oz. and i d. per 2 oz. thereafter
SAMPLES Id. fOl' first 4 oz. and i d. per 2 oz. thereafter.
"BLlND LITERATURE" Up to 2 Ibs ! d; 5lbs. Id.; 8 Ibs l i d; 11 Iba. 2d.;
151bs, 2t d.
REGISTRATION FEE 3d. for all articles.
INSURANCE FEE 5d. for every £ 12 of value.
ADVICE OF DELIVERY 3d. (for registered and insured articles only).
(Applied for at tim' cf posting)
INQUIRY FOR AND ADVICE
OF DELIVERY 4d. (for regisLred and insured articl,. on y),
(Applied for after p . sting)
PARCEL POST PARCELS See columns 7-11 of Table following.

Pa.ges 82-95.
Footnotes; For "A = Itd., per first oz., and Id. per each oz. after; B = 2!d per
first oz. and l!d., for each oz., after"; substitute: "A = 2d. for first oz., and Id. for
w
each oz. after; B = 3d. for first oz., and 2d., for each o~. after".
Pa.ge lOO.-POSTAL ORDERS.
Delete existing copy of page 100 of 1939 edition of Post Office Guide (except last
paragraph, "Period during which orders are payable") and substitute the following :
Amounts of poundage.-Postal Orders are sold and cashed at all Post Offices in Jamaica,
and in the countries marked with an asterisk (*) above, which include the greater
portion of the British Empire, except Australia. and Canada. These orders are printed
on a paper bearing an "all-over" water mark consisting of the Royal Cipher-a crown
and the letters G. v R., and they measure slightly less than 7 ins. in length . .
The commissions charged on orders issued are as follows:-
At 6d. Id.
At 1/- l!d.
At 1/6, 2,-, 2/6, 3/-, 3/6, 4/-, 4/6, 5/- 2d.
At 7/6, 8,-, 10/- .. 3d.
At 20/- .. 4!d.
Postage Stamps Affixed to Postal Orders.-Postage stamps of the following Dominions,
Colonies, etc. are recognised when properly affil'ed by the senders to the face of British
Postal Orders issued in the respective territories, provided that the stamps do not exceed
two in number and (a) 5d. in total value on an order of denominations up to and
including 4/6; (b) lId. in total value-on an order of denominations above 4/6.:-
Aden, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate,
Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Brunei, Burma, Cayman Islands, Ceylon,
Cyprus, Dominica., Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Grenada,
Hong Kong, India (including Indian Post Offices on the Persian Gulf and in Tibet),
Iraq, Jamaica., Kenya Uganda and Tanganyika, Malay State&,. Malta, Mam:itius,
Montserrat, Morocco (British Agencies at Tangier and Tetuan), Newfoundland, New
Zealand,.. also Cook Islands and Samoa, Nigeria. North Borneo (State of), Northern
Rhodesia, Nya.sa.land Protectorate, Palestine, St. Kitt&'Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent,
Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, Union of South
West Africa, SwaziJand, Tonga Islands, Tortola (British Virgin Islands), Transjordan,
Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Zanzibar.