Old Dredge's annual : containing calendar, 1892, diary, post office information, domestic hints, humourous jottings and a selection of handy notes illustrated by views of places of interest, and containing a variety of information useful to all / issued by W. Smith, Chemist.

  • Barclay & Sons Limited.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Old Dredge's annual : containing calendar, 1892, diary, post office information, domestic hints, humourous jottings and a selection of handy notes illustrated by views of places of interest, and containing a variety of information useful to all / issued by W. Smith, Chemist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Post- Office will not undertake the sate transmission of valuable en¬ closures in unregistered letters ; and unregistered letters found ts contain coin will, on delivery, be charged with a registration fee of 8d. INLAND REGISTRATION AND COMPENSATION. The Postmaster - General will (not in consequence of any legal liability, but voluntarily, and as an act of grace), subject to the rules of the Post Office, give compensation up to a maximum limit of £25 for the loss and damage of Inland Registered Postal Packets of all kinds upon prepayment of a fee in addition to the postage. This fee either consists of or includes in each case the ordinary registration fee of 2d.; and the scale of fees and the respective limits of compen¬ sation are as follows :— Limit of Fee Compensation. 2 d. £5 3d.£xo 4 d.£15 5 d.£20 6d.£25 . Every article presented for regis¬ tration should be marked with the word “ Registered,” and with the amount of the fee proper to the value up to which the sender desires to secure compensation, thus : “ Registered 2d.” ; “ Regis¬ tered 3d.” ; and so on. The sender of an inland regis¬ tered letter, parcel or other regis¬ tered postal packet, may obtain an acknowledgement of its due delivery to the addressee by paying in advance, at the time of posting, a fee of 2d. in addition to the postage and registration fee. The loss of a registered article (as it can be traced through its whole course) is a rare occur¬ rence. Nevertheless large sums of money should not be sent through the post, as the only compensation given for loss of coin is £2. REGISTERED ENVELOPES Are sold at all Post-Offices, and by rural messengers, according to size, from 2{d. to 3d. each. POSTAGE ON INLAND REGISTERED NEWSPAPERS. Prepaid Rates. — For each Registered Newspaper, whether posted singly or in a packet— One Halfpenny; but a packet containing two or more Regis¬ tered Newspapers is not charge¬ able with a higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on a Book-Packet of the same weight, viz., One Halfpenny for every 2 oz. or fraction of 2 oz. INLAND PARCEL POST. Parcels not exceeding n lbs. in weight are received at any Post Office for transmission between places in the United Kingdom at following rates :— For a parcel not exceeding 1'b. 3d. ,, ,, exceeding 1 lb. in weight and not 2 lbs.. .4|d. And every succeeding lb. ijd. to a parcel not exceeding 11 lbs. in weight for .1/6 No parcel is accepted which weighs more than 11 lbs. or is not sufficiently paid. Maximum length 3 ft. 6 in.; maximum length and girth com¬ bined, 6 ft. Example A parcel measuring 3 ft. 6in. in its longest dimensions may measure as much as 2 ft. 6 in. in girth, i.e., around its thickest part. Certificates of posting in respect of unregistered parcels can now be obtained, which in case of loss will secure compensation up to £2. If the parcel is registered, compensation will be given as in article headed “Inland Regis¬ tration and Compensation.” FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PARCEL POST- Parcels may now be forwarded to the British Colonies and Foreign Possessions generally. The reader is directed to make application for this information to the Local Postmaster, or to consult the Post Office Guide, which is published quarterly; the space at command not allowing its being detailed here. INLAND BOOK POST- The Book Post rate is One Halfpenny for every 2 oz. or frac¬ tion of 2 oz. A Book-Packet may contain not only books, paper, or other substances in ordinary use for writing or printing, whether plain or written or printed upon (to the exclusion of any written letter or communication of the nature of a letter), photographs, when not on glass, and anything usually appertaining to such articles in the way of binding and mounting or necessary for their safe transmission by post, but also Circulars when these are wholly or in great part printed engraved, or lithographed. Every Book-Packet must be posted in a cover open at both ends, to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for ex- arnitatiun. A Packet posted wholly unpaid will be charged with double the Book Postage; and if posted partially prepaid, with double the deficiency.— No Book-Packet may exceed 5 lbs. in weight, or 1 ft. 6 in. in length, gin. in width, and 6 in.in depth. POST-OFFICE ORDERS. On September 1st, 1886, a con¬ siderable reduction in the Rates of Commission on Money Orders was effected. The Commission is as follows : — For Sums under £1. 2d. ,, of £1 and under £2 3d. it £2 ,, £4 4 d. „ £4 „ £7 5 d. £7 >. £10 6d. Fractional part of a penny not ad¬ missible. No Single Order granted for more than £10. POSTAL ORDERS. Postal Orders are now issued on the following terms :— IS. •» 2'd• 4s. 6d. .. id. IS. 6d. .. bd. 5 s- id. 2S. .. id. ys. 6d. .. id. 2 S. 6d. .. id. 10s. id. 3s* .. id. ios.6d.. id. 3^. 6d. .. id. 15s. 1 id. 4s. .. id. 20s. 1 Id. Broken amounts may be made up by the use of Postage Stamps, not exceeding 5c?. in value, affixed to the face of any one Postal Order. Postal Orders are not payable outside of the United Kingdom, except at Malta, Gibraltar, and Constantinople. POSTAL TELEGRAMS. > Charge throughout the United Kingdom 6d. for twelve words; names and adi resses of sender and receiver included. Usually, howevtr, there is no necessity to telegraph sender’s address. Each additionalword, Jd. Numbers in addresses counted as one word. 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