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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
355
21.
Coin
is
prohibited
to
be
sent
in
ordinary
letters
passing
between
one
part
of
the
United
Kingdom
and
another.[191]
If
a
letter
be
posted
containing
coin,
it
will
be
registered
and
charged
a
double
registration
fee.
Coins
or
any
other
articles
of
value,
if
properly
secured,
will
be
certain
of
careful
treatment
under
the
registration
system.[192]
22.
Letters
meant
to
be
registered
must
never
be
dropped
into
the
letter-box
as
in
the
case
of
ordinary
letters,
but
should
be
given
to
the
clerk
in
charge
of
the
post-office
counter
or
window
to
be
dealt
with,
who
will
in
each
case
give
his
receipt
for
it.
The
receipt
is
the
sender's
evidence
that
it
has
been
posted
in
proper
course.
23.
Letters
containing
sharp
instruments,
liquids,
&c.
or
any
other
articles
which
would
be
likely
of
themselves,
or
if
they
should
escape,
to
do
injury
to
the
other
contents
of
the
mail-bag,
should
never
be
posted.
Postmasters
have
instructions
not
to
forward
such
letters
according
to
their
address,
but,
when
observed,
to
send
them
to
the
Dead-Letter
Office,
from
which
place
they
will
be
returned
to
the
writers.
Valuable
letters
of
this
forbidden
kind,
therefore,
run
great
risks
of
delay,
while
the
articles
are
liable
to
be
destroyed
in
their
passage
through
the
post.[193]
24.
Though
the
transmission
of
coin
in
letters
is
now
absolutely
forbidden,
except
under
the
registration
scheme,
arrangements
are
made
for
rendering
it
easy
to
send
small
sums
by
post
in
postage-stamps.
When
presented
at
any
of
the
numerous
money-order
offices
in
the
United
Kingdom,
they
may
be
exchanged
for
money,
at
a
charge
of
2½
per
cent.
Any
person
wishful
to
send
through
the
post
a
sum
of
money
under
five
or
six
shillings
will
find
it
cheaper
to
buy
stamps
and
enclose
them,
in
place
of
a
post-office
order.
One
penny
will
be
charged
for
buying
forty
stamps,
a
halfpenny
for
twenty
stamps.
60,000l.
worth
of
postage-stamps
were
bought
from
the
public
during
the
year
1862.
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