The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

PuSTAGE RATES.

1. For a packet not exceeding 4 oz., Id.; do., above 4
z. and not exceeding 8 oz , 2d. ; do., above 8 cz. and
not exceeding 16 oz,, 4d. ; do., above 1 lb. and not
ex-
ceeding 1i lb., 6.1., and so on, twopence being charged
for cvery addi i anal half-pound or any lees weight.
2. The po,i age must be prepaid in full by means of
postage stamps affixed outside the packet or its elver.
3. Every book packet must be sent either without a
cover or in a cover open at the ends or sides, so as to
admit of an examination of the contents.

4. A book packet may contai❑ any number of sepa-
rate books or other publications, print■, or maps, and
any qualiti y of paper, parchment or vellum (to the tx•
elusion, however, of written letters, whether sealed or
open), and the books or other publications, prints,
maps, &e, may be either printed, written, or plain, or
any mixture of the three. Further, all legitimate bino-
- mounting, or covering of a book, publication, &c.,
or of a portion thereo', will be allowed, whether such
binding, be loose or attached, as also raters in the
case of prints or maps, mar ere (whether of paper or
otherwise) in the case of hooks, and, in short, whatever
is necessary for the safe transmission of literary or
artistic matter, or usually appertains thereto : but no
patterns or books of patters can be admitted.
5. No -book packet may contain any written letter,
closed or open, 'or any enclosure, sealed or otherwise
closed against inspection, nor must there be any letter,
or any communication of the nature of a letter, written
in aihy such packet or on its cover.

6. No book packet cao be received, if it exceeds two
feet iu length, width, or depth.

7. Any book packet which shall not be open at the
ends or sides, or shad hive any letter, or any communi-
cati,,n of the nature of a letter, writt, n in it or upon its
cover, will be charged with the " unpaid" or double
letter postnge.
_ _

8. if a book packet be found to contain any written
letter, whether closed or open, or any enclosure sealed
or otherwise closed against inspection, or any other un•
authori-ed enclosure, the letter or enclosure will be taken
out and forwarded to the address on the packet, charged
with full postage as an unpaid letter, together with an
additional rate of fourpence ' • and the remainder of the
packet, if duly prepaid with stamps, will then be for-
warded to its address.

9. If a book packet be not sufficiently prepaid with
stamps, but nevertheless bear a stamp of the value of one
penny, it will be forwarded charged with the deacient
book postage, together with an additional rate of four-
pence ; but any packet which shall bear no postagestamp
will be charged with the "unpaid" or double letter pos-
tage, according to its weight.
10. These regulation will not interfere with the privi-
leges allowed to votes and proceedings of Parliament, or
with those alowed to newspapers and other periodical
publications bearing a newspaper stamp, and posted
in acordance with the regulations applicable to such
privileged publications.
11. To prevent obstacles to the regular transmission
of letters, any officer of the Post-office may, when neces-
sary, detain a book packet for a period not sx,:eeding
twenty-four hour.; beyond the time when it would other-
wise be forwarded.

12. The head postmaster who first receives a book
packet must, whenever he has ground for suspecting an
infringement of the above conditions, and occasionaily.
even when there is no ground for suspicion, open and
ixarnine the packet; and eve►y packet which shall not be
„pee at the ends. or sides, or shall exeed two feet in
length, width, or depth, or shall have any letter or corn-
munica,ion of the nature of a letter written in it or upon
its cover, or shall bear no posta4e stamp, must be sent
up, with as l►ttle delay as possible, to the Dead Letter-
office in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, as the case may
be ; but, in the event of any other infringement of the
regulations, the packet must be dealt with by the post-
master himself as lad down in paragraph No. 8, and in
the first part of No. 9„
By comnanand of the Postmaster• General,
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.
General Pat-office, 24th April, 1857. S

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