Page 83 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

POST OFFICE GUIDE 83

Overseas Post: Printed Papers, contd.

ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS
The sender may, cither outside or inside a packet of printed papers: Indicate by
any process, the name or business name, status, profession and address of the
sender and of the addressee, the place and the date of despatch, the signature, a
serial or registration number referring solely to the packet;
Correct errors in printing;
Strike out, underline or ring round certain words or certain parts of a printed text
unless this is done with the object of constituting a code.
The following and similar documents and so on, may bear additions and
alterations made by any process, to the extent indicated in each case.

Order forms: Order forms or subscription forms or forms of offer for publica­
tions, books, pamphlets, newspapers, engravings and musical scores may bear
the names of the works and number of copies asked for or offered; the price
and notes representing essential elements of the price; the method of payment;
the edition and names of the authors and publishers; the catalogue number and
the words Paper Covered, Stiff Covered or Bound.
Forms used by the lending services of libraries: The titles of the works, the
number of copies asked for or sent, the names of the authors and publishers,
the catalogue numbers, the number of days allowed for reading, the name of the
person wishing to consult the work in question.
Printed cards: Pictorial cards, printed visiting cards, Christmas and New
Year cards may bear good wishes, greetings, congratulations, thanks, condolences
or other formulae of courtesy expressed in not more than five words or by means
of not more than five conventional initials for example: Kind regards, Best
Wishes and other greetings and so on, not conveying specific information or
making an enquiry or request are admissible. Phrases such as “Arrived Safely,
See you on Monday”, and so on, are not admissible.
Proofs of printing: Alterations and additions concerned, with corrections,
form and printed, and also such notes as “Passed for Press”, or similar notes
concerned with the execution of the work. In case of want of space, these
additions may be made on separate sheets.
Fashion papers: Cut out patterns which bear indications that they form an
integral part of the paper with which they are sent.
Books: (Printed literary and artistic productions) Books, pamphlets, news­
papers, photographs, engravings, sheets of music and in general all literary or
artistic productions, whether printed, or engraved, lithographed or mimeo­
graphed, may bear a dedication consisting of a simple expression of regard.

Cuttings from newspapers and periodicals: The title, date, number and address
of the publication from which the article is taken.
Notices of change of address: The old and the new address of the sender and
the date of the change.
Enclosures
The sender may enclose in a packet of printed papers a card, envelope or
"Tapper bearing his printed address or that of his agent and having a postage
stamp of the country of destination affixed for prepayment of the return postage.
The relative open invoice, reduced to its essential elements together with copies
of the invoice deposit notes, may be enclosed with articles listed in the paragraph
“Books” above.