Evening star., 1901-04-01
NEW ORDER AS TO RATES
MAIL FOR CUBA AND INsULAR POS
SESSIONS.
Regulations Regarding Addressing
Letters and the Sending
of Gifts.

The Postmaster General has promulgated
an order regulating rates of postage and
classification of mails between the United
States and It's insular possessions and
Cuba, and the military and naval service
in China" The order deals also with the
forwarding of all mail matter to persons
in the United States service and of the
sending of gifts or souvenirs to or from
persons in the United States service.
The number of the order Is 395 and its
text follows:
1t Is ordered:
/. That all mail matter originating in the
United States for transmission to Cuba,
Guam, the Philippine archipelago. or Tu-
tuia Gncluding all adjacent islands of the
Samoan group which are possessions Of the
United States) shall be subject to the
United States domestic classification, con-
ditons and rates of postage.
2. That all mail matter originating in
Cuba Guam. the Philippine archipelago,
or Tutuila, for transmission to the United
States from one to another of those
islands, shall be subject to the United
States domestic classification, conditions
and rates of postage.
Note l. In this order, Hawaii and Porto
Rico are included in the term United
States and Guam, Tutuila and the Philip
pine archipelago are included in the term
island possessions"
Note 2. To insure prompt delivery, mail
matter sent to persons in the United States
service should include in the address the
complete designation of the organization,
company or regiment. vessel or other
branch of the service to which the ad-
dressee belongs; and the postage thereon
should be fully prepaid.
Forwarding Letters.
g. That all mail matter, whatever its
class. addressed to persons in the United
States service, serving in the United States
or any of it's island possessions, or Cuba, or
en- route to or from the United States or
any of it's island possessions, or Cuba,
whose change of address is caused by Of
fetal orders, shall be transmitted as rapid
ly as possible until it reaches the address,
ee; that the actual location of the ad
dressee, for the time being, shall be con-
sidered as the original destination Of the
piece of mail matter; that such transmits
sion shall not be considered as forward
1Eg In the sense in which that word is
used in the postal service, and that no
additional postage shall be required there
for.
4. That letters sent by soldiers, sailors
and marines in the United States service in
Cuba, Guam, the Philippine archipelago or
Tutuila, addressed to places in the United
States when indorsed Soldiers letter.
Sailors letter. or Marines letter. may
be dispatched to destination without repay
ment of postage, and only the single rate
of postage shall be collected on delivery.
). That the postage rates, conditions and
treatment prescribed throughout this order
shall apply, as far as practicable, to all
mail matter sent to or from persons in the
United States military or naval service
while in China: Provided, That such mail
matter sent by persons in the United States
service in China be endorsed to show the
branch of the service to which the sender
belongs: as, for instance ~. S. soldiers
letter. ~. S. sailors letter." or ~. S.
marines letter." and that such mail matter
IN tod fafa
service in China bears the complete desig-
nation of the organization, company or
regiment or vessed, to which the addressee
belongs.
Gifts From Abroad.
6. In pursuance of the Presidents order
of November 4, 1899. unsealed packages
and parcels of maiable matter containing
only articles designed as gifts souvenirs,
and with no commercial purpose and not
for sale, sent by persons in the United
States service military, naval or civil), In
Porto Rico Guam, the Philippine Islands
or Cuba, to members of their families in
the United States; and unsealed packages
of mailing matter of the same personal
character sent from the United States to
officers, soldiers. sailors and others in the
public service in said islands, shall be
transmitted through the mails and deliv-
cred subject only to domestic postal rates
and regulations Provided, That no such
package shall exceed four pounds in
weight, and each shall be indorsed on the
outside. in a conspicuous place, with the
word Gift" or Souvenir or the equiv
alent thereof; and that when sent from
said islands to the United States each such
package shall be so marked as to show the
branch of the service to which the sender
belongs, and be countersigned by a COM
miSsoned officer or a postmaster, and that
when sent from the United States to said
islands each such package shall show the
branch of the service to which the ad
dressee belongs.
PostmasterS are directed to advise send
ers of such packages of the provisions of
this section, and otherwise see that full
instructions given for it's proper eXecu-
ton.
The Franking Privilege.
/. That any article entitled to transmits
sion free of postage in the domestic mails
of the United States, either in a penalty
envelope or under duly authorized
frank" shall be entitled likewise to trans
mission in the mails, free of postage, be-
tween places in Cuba, Guam, the Philip
pine archipelago and Tutuila from one to
another of those islands, from the United
States to those islands and from those is
lands to the United States
5. That the registration fee shall be
cents, in addition to the lawful postage.
.. That United States postage stamps
shall be valid for the payment of postage
in the island possessions, and the over
printed postage stamps of the island pos
sessions shall be accepted in payment of
postage wherever United States postage
stamps are valid.
10. This order shall be in effect April 1,
1901 and supersedes order No. S74 of July
26 1900. which is hereby revoked; and all
existing schedules conflicting herewith
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