Her Majesty's Mails

NEWSPAPER POSTS. (a) It is not compulsory to send newspapers through the post. (b) The rate for newspapers stamped with the impressed stamp is one penny for two sheets, three-halfpence for three sheets, and twopence for four sheets, of printed matter. (c) No newspaper, or other publication, can pass through the post, unless the impressed stamp be of the value of at least one penny. (d) The title and date of every publication so passing must be printed at the top of every page. (e) The impressed stamp (or stamps, if more than one publication be sent under one cover) must be distinctly visible on the outside. When a newspaper is folded so as not to expose the stamp, a fine of one penny is made in addition to the proper postage of the paper. (f) The publication must not be printed on pasteboard or cardboard, but on ordinary paper, nor must it be enclosed in a cover of either material. (g) Newspapers bearing the impressed stamp cannot circulate through the post after they are fifteen days old. (h) They must not contain any enclosure, and must either have no cover at all, or one which shall be open at both ends. They must have no writing either inside or outside, except the name of the persons to whom they are sent, the printed title of the publications, and the printed names of the publishers or agents sending them. If one of these newspapers be addressed to a second person, the address in the first instance still remaining, it is regarded as an infringement of the above rule, and renders the paper liable to be charged as an unpaid letter.