TABLE NO. 2. Payable in Apia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, For orders from $ 0.01 to $ 2.50. TABLE NO. 3. .10 cents ..15 cents ..20 cents. ..25 cents. ...30 cents ..35 cents ..40 cents. .45 cents ..50 cents ..60 cents ..70 cents ...80 cents .90 cents . $1.00 Denmark, including Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands; the Danish West Indies. Egypt. France, the French post offices in China, Morocco, and Turkey; the French colonies of Algeria, Dahomey, Guadeloupe and dependencies, Guiana (French), Guinea (French), IndoChina, Ivory Coast, Martinique, Mauretania, New Caledonia, Oceanica, St. Pierre-Miquelon, Senegal, Senegal-Niger; French establishments in India. Germany, the German protectorates and German post offices in Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Turkey. Great Britain, British post offices in Morocco and Turkey; British colonies of Australia, Bahamas, Bechuanaland, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Cook Islands, Dominica, East Africa, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Honduras (BritIsh), Hong Kong and Hong Kong offices in China, India, Labuan, Malta, Mauritius Islands, Natal, Newfoundland, New Guinea, New Zealand, Papua, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Southern Nigeria, South Rhodesia, Straits Settlements, Tasmania, Transvaal, Trinidad, Uganda, Zululand; British Protectorates of the Solomon, Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Greece. Japan and Japanese post offices in China and Liberia. Luxemburg. Mexico. DELIVERY AND FORWARDING OF REGISTERED MAIL Either the sender or the addressee of domestic registered mail may restrict its deliv ery. Registered mail which is not restricted in delivery may be delivered to any responsible person who customarily receives, the ordinary mail of the addressee. All registered matter, except that which has once been properly delivered, may be forwarded without additional charge for registry fee, upon the written request of any person to whom it is deliverable. In cases of emergency, when the postmaster is satisfied that no fraud is intended, a telegraphic order from the addressee may be honored. Written orders to forward mail, signed by addressees or their agents duly authorized to control such matter, must be construed to apply to both ordinary and registered mail, unless such orders specifically state that registered mail shall not be so forwarded, or separate and special written orders are furnished directing other disposition of registered mail. REGISTRY RETURN RECEIPT TO BE FUR- Section 3928 of the Revised Statutes reads a follows: "Whenever the sender shall so request, a receipt shall be taken on the delivery of any registered mail matter, showing to whom and when the same was delivered, which receipt shall be returned to the sender and be received in the courts as prima facie evidence of such delivery." In accordance with this statute postmasters do not prepare receipt cards for return to the senders of domestic registered mail which does not bear the indorsement "Receipt desired" or words of similar import. When an article bearing such indorsement is received for registration, the registration receipt issued to the sender and the registration record are required to be similarly indorsed. See page 340 relative to return receipts for insured domestic parcel post mail. REGISTRATION FEES. The fee for the registration of mail matter, foreign and domestic, is fixed at ten cents for each piece, in addition to postage, and both postage and fee must be prepaid at the time of registration. Fourth-class (domestic parcel post) matter may not be registered, but may be insured against loss in the mails by the prepayment of a fee of ten cents in postage stamps, to be affixed to each parcel. See page 340. The Department has discontinued the issuance of the special ten-cent registry stamp. No further supply of this stamp shall be printed. The registry fee may be prepaid by means of any stamps which are valid for the prepayment of postage. INDEMNITY FOR REGISTERED MAIL. Indemnity will be paid on account of the loss of registered mail in the postal service: (a) For the value of domestic registered mail of the first class (sealed) up to $50. (b) For the value of domestic registered mail of the third class, unsealed, up to $25. See page 340 in regard to indemnity for lost insured and C. O. D. parcels. (c) In any amount claimed, within the limit of 50 francs (approximately $9.65), on account of the loss, in the international mails, of a registered article of any class, regardless of its value, exchanged between the United States and any country embraced within the Universal Postal Union, except on account of losses arising under circumstances beyond control ("force majeure") and international "Parcels Post" registered mail. First-class domestic matter must be sealed before being registered. FOREIGN MAILS. POSTAGE RATES ON ARTICLES FOR CANADA, CUBA, MEXICO, THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA, THE UNITED STATES POSTAL AGENCY AT SHANGHAI AND THE UNITED STATES NAVAL HOSPITAL AT YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. Articles addressed for delivery in Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the Republic of Panama are subject to the same postage rates and conditions which would apply to them if they were addressed for delivery in the United States: Except that: (a) Letters and postal cards must be dispatched to Canada and Mexico if prepaid one full rate of postage and to Cuba and Panama whether prepaid or not. Other articles for Cuba and Panama must be prepaid at least in part and for Canada and Mexico in full. (b) "Prints," "samples" and "commercial papers' may be sent subject to the postage rates, weight limit and other conditions applicable to similar articles in Postal Union mails. (c) Articles other than letters in their usual and ordinary form are excluded from the mails, unless they are so wrapped that their contents can be easily examined by postmasters and customs officers. Any article enclosed in an envelope, as the word "envelope" is generally used, without regard to its size, is considered to be in the usual and ordinary form" of a letter. But unsealed packages may contain, in sealed receptacles, articles which cannot be safely transmitted in unsealed receptacles, provided the contents of the closed receptacles are plainly visible or are precisely stated on the covers of the closed receptacles and that the package is so wrapped that the outer cover can be easily opened. Packages of fourth-class matter that weigh over four ounces and not over four pounds six ounces may be sent to Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the Republic of Panama, at the eighth zone rate of postage (see Page 340). The pareels for Mexico and the Republic of Panama must be accompanied by customs declarations. Unmailable.-The following articles are unmailable under any condition, viz.: All sealed packages which, from their form and general appearance, evidently are not letters; publications which violate the copyright laws of the country of destination; poisons, explosive or inflammable substances; live or dead (not dried) animals, insects (except bees) and reptiles; fruits and vegetables which quickly decompose, and substances which exhale a bad odor; lottery tickets or circulars; all obscene or immoral articles, articles which may destroy or damage the mails, or injure the persons handling them; and to Cuba and the Republic of Panama, liquids and fatty substances, except samples thereof. The domestic postage rates and conditions of Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the Republic of Panama apply to articles mailed in those coun tries addressed for delivery in the United States. Consequently articles (except sealed packages which are not letters) mailed in any one of those countries which are entitled to pass in the domestic mails of that country free of postage, are likewise entitled to transmission frec of postage to the United States. Prepayment of postage upon any article mailed in the United States, except the reply half of a double postal card, can be effected only by means of United States postage stamps. Postage due: Postage due upon articles exchanged with these countries insufficiently prepaid, is collectible upon delivery at the single rate. SECOND-CLASS MATTER FOR CANADA. The postage rate applicable in the United States to "second-class matter" addressed for delivery in Canada is 1 cent for each 4 ounces or fraction of 4 ounces, calculated on the weight of each package and prepaid by means of postage stamps affixed; except that the postage rate to publishers and news agents applicable to legitimate daily newspapers issued as frequently as six times a week addressed to bona fide subscribers in Canada, is 1 cent a For printed matter of all kinds, 1 cent for office of mailing as second-class matter. Articles for or from foreign countries (except Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the Republic of Panama and the United States Postal Agency at Shanghai, as indicated above, are not des"Second-class ignated "First-class matter," matter," etc.; but are classified as "Letters." "Commer"Post cards," "Printed matter," cial papers" and "Samples of merchandise," and are subject to the postage rates indicated below: For letters, 5 cents for the first ounce, or fraction of an ounce, and 3 cents for each additional ounce, or fraction of an ounce. Stamps or forms of prepayment, whether current or obsolete, canceled or uncanceled, as well as printed articles constituting the representative sign of monetary value, and articles in typewriting or imitation of typewriting, are Monetary subject to postage at the letter rate. value is held by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union to attach to bonds, bank notes, commercial bills of exchange, etc.. which have been fully executed by the makers: For postal cards, 2 cents each, for single, and 4 cents each for double cards. each 2 ounces or fraction of 2 ounces. For commercial papers, 5 cents for the first 10 ounces or less, and 1 cent for each additional 2 ounces or fraction of 2 ounces. For samples, 2 cents for the first 4 ounces or less, and 1 cent for each additional 2 ounces or fraction of 2 ounces. Registration fee, in addition to postage, 10 cents. Letters for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Newfoundland, 2 cents per ounce, and letters for Germany dispatched only by steamers which land the mails at German ports, 2 cents per ounce. Newfoundland is not included in the Dominion of Canada. DOMESTIC PARCEL POST. The provisions of the act approved August 24, 1912, authorizing the establishment of the Parcels Post System embodying a zone system of postal rates according to certain prescribed distances from a given territorial center to take effect Jan. 1, 1913, provides that fourth-class mail matter is to embrace all other matter, including farm and factory products, not now embraced by law in either the first, second, or third-class, not (exceeding twenty pounds in weight when mailed for delivery within the first and second zones, nor) exceeding eleven pounds in weight (when for delivery in any of the other zones), nor greater in size than 72 inches in length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person of any postal employee or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishable within a period reasonably required for transportation and delivery. For parcels post purposes the United States and its several Territories and possessions, excepting the Philippine Islands, are divided into units of area thirty minutes square, identical with a quarter of the area formed by the intersecting parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude. There is a flat rate of one cent per ounce up to four ounces regardless of distance. Above four ounces, rates are by the pound or fraction thereof, and varying with the distance given in the adjoining table and table on page 342. as |