Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-28
Rulings of the p. o. Department .
DOMESTIC.

l. Postal cards having additional mat
fer printed, stamped, or written on the
side on which is distinctly printed the
words. ''Write the address only on this
side, are unavailable.
.. Postal cards are not to be returned
to the writers. If not delivered in sixty
days from their receipt, pOstmasters
should burn them.
3. There is no objection to written
address on circulars. Any other addi-
ton in writing, such as date, ETC., makes
them subject to letter postage.
4. Circulars, price-current, etc, ao1'at-
ten with a stylus on manifold paper are
subject to letter rates of postage.
5. The postage on package OF news
papcrs of small size issued less frequent
w than once a week, weighing 81 ounces
,hOuld be charged at the rate of one cent
for each four ounces or fraction thereof
to be paid quarterly or yearly in adj
vance. Thus: if received monthly, two
cents on each package, six cents per
quarter, or twenty-fOur cents per year;
II received semi-mOnthly, twelve cents
per quarter, or forty-eight cents per
year
6. The blanks of the several executive
departments bound in book form are
subject to the rate of postage for books
two cents for each two ounces or frac-
ton thereof.
:. Newspapers deposited in letter-car-
ricr offices for city delivery are subject
To- postage charge of one cent on each
paper, to be prepaid by postage stamps
affixed. Weekly papers are an exception
to this law, and may be delivered at quar-
terly rates. The ruling in the Post ~
free Gazette is not correct as applied TO
Ietter-carrier offices.
s. All postage stamps Cancelled, Official
or regular, should be included IN post
masters returns for the readJustment OF
salaries.
9. The registry fee on official letters
of the Executive Departments may be
paid with the official postage stamps OF
the respective departments.
10. Official postage stamps cannot be
received in payment of registry Zee eX-
cept on official correspondence.
II. When a package OF specimen
newspapers not prepaid at the mailing
office reaches its destination, the parties
TO whom they are addressed may have
the same delivered to them by paying
onc-Quarter's postage in advance, or
double transient rates, as they may pre-
fer. 1t is proper to notify the post
master at the mailing Office in such cases
to require the publisher to take the oath
prescribed by the two hundred and tenth
regulation of 1866.
H. Printed matter cannot be returned
to publishers except the postmaster is
furnished with postage to prepay such
return at transient rates.
13. A postal card reaching its destlna-
ton, and having been delivered to the
party named in the address, cannot be
again mailed except as letter at letter
rates. This decision renders void any
former decision of the department not
in accordance Herewith.
IA. All new money-order offices must
commence business at one and the same
time. An annual list of such offices is
issued about the LIST July in each year.
Applications to be included in said list
must be made prior to May | in each
year. The system is not introduced into
any Office where the postmaster's salary
is less than $3.50 year.
10. POstmasters are not allowed to
cancel or count in their record of stamps
cancelled for the reimbursement of salary
any stamps other than those placed on
the letters mailed at their own offices.
FOREIGN.
/. The late order relative to the treat
ment of periodical publications sent IN
the mails to Great Britain applies to
monthly magazines in paper covers.
9. Newspapers addressed to France
should be prepaid at the rate of two
cents each for transmission by direct
steamer from New York. This is the
United States postage only, and leaves
the newspapers subject to additional
postage on delivery in France. This is
the only way in which printed matter
can be forwarded to that country. Let
tiers should be prepaid at the rate of 10
cents for one-third ounce (ten grams
per transmission in the mails via Great
Britain.
3. Letters per Sumatra should be pre-
paid for transmission in the British OF
German mails, as the United States dc