TABLE No. 5.—Shewing the rates of Postage to be collected in Canada on Letters, Newspapers, Pamphlets, Magazines, Printed Matter and Books sent by way of the United States to the undermentioned Colonies and Foreign Countries.
(a) Letters can be Registered to Shanghae, in China, and Yokohama, in Japan, by way of the United States, but to no other places in either country.
(b) Printed Prices Current and Mercantile Circulars can, where this letter is prefixed, be forwarded as Newspapers.
Books are transmitted as such only where the rate is given; in all other cases they pass as Printed Matter, at the rates specified for that class of matter.
Registration can be effected on correspondence for those places only to which the fee is given.
TABLE No. 6
Rates of Postage on all matter transmissible by Post—not of the character of a Letter—within Canada, to Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Great Britain, France, and the United States.
| Description of Matter. | Between any place in Canada and to Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. | To Great Britain, Mail Steam Packets sailing from Quebec or Portland and Halifax. | To Great Britain by Cunard and other Steamers sailing from New York. | To France by Mail Steam Packets sailing from Quebec, &c. | To United States. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Books | 1 cent per oz. | Canadian Pkt. Book Post (a) | Cunard Pkt Book Post (b) | French Book Post (c) | 1 ct. per oz., subject on delivery to U.S. postage | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cartes de visite | do | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Circulars—Printed | 1 cent each when sent singly, or 1 cent per oz. | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Handbills | 1 cent per oz | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lithographed Letters and Circulars | 1 cent each when sent singly, or 1 cent per oz. | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Newspapers, Canadian |
| At commuted rate, if prepaid from office of publication | As by Can. Str., with 2 cents additional on each paper | do | 2 cents each. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Newspapers, transient | 2 cents each | 2 cents each | 4 cents each | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pamphlets and occasional Publications | 1 cent per oz. | Canadian Pkt. Book Post (a) | Cunard Pkt Book Post (b) | do | 1 ct. per oz. as above | ||||||||||||||||||||
| “Parcel Post” Packages | Parcels cannot be sent by post beyond the Dominion of Canada. For rates, see margin (d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Patterns of Merchandize for sale | 1 cent per oz | Canadian Pkt. Book Post (a) | Cunard Pkt Book Post (b) | French Book Post (c) | Cannot be sent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Periodicals | 1 cent per 4 oz., whether package contains one or more Nos. | 2 cents each No. if published in Canada; Canadian Pkt. Book Post, if foreign | do | do | Same as between places in Canada, subject on delivery to U.S. postage. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [14] Photographs in Cases | Parcel Post (b) | Canadian Pkt. Book Post (a) | do | do | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ” on card, see Cartes de visite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ” Albums | do | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Prices Current | 1 cent per oz. | 2 cents each, or in bulk at Canadian Packet Book Post (a) | 4 cents each | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Book and Newspaper Manuscript, Printers’ Proof, Maps, &c. | do | Canadian Pkt. Book Post (a) | Cunard Pkt Book Post (b) | do | 1 cent per oz., as above. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Printed Matter—of the same character as Circulars, Handbills, &c. | do | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sample of Merchandize—See Patterns. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School Returns—Half-yearly | do | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| School Returns—by School Trustees to Superintendent, even although filled up in writing | 1 cent each or 1 cent per oz. | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Seeds, &c.,—samples of (including Cuttings, Bulbs, Roots, Scions, or Grafts) | 1 cent per oz. | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Papers | Free | do | do | do | do | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Petitions and Addresses to Provincial Legislatures, Votes and Proceedings, and other papers, printed by order of said Legislatures | Free to and from places where Session is held |
[13] Commuted Rate prepayable by Subscriber or Publisher.
[14] Photographs in cases containing glass cannot be sent by Post.
(a)—CANADIAN PACKET BOOK POST.
| Not exceeding 1 oz. | 2 | cents. |
| 1 to 2 ozs. | 4 | ” |
| 2 to 4 ozs. | 6 | ” |
| 4 to 8 ozs. | 12 | ” |
| 8 to 12 ozs. | 18 | ” |
| 12 ozs. to 1 lb. | 24 | ” |
| and so on. | ||
(b)—CUNARD PACKET BOOK POST.
| Not exceeding 1 oz. | 4 | cents. |
| 1 to 2 ozs. | 6 | ” |
| 2 to 4 ozs. | 8 | ” |
| 4 to 8 ozs. | 16 | ” |
| 8 to 12 ozs. | 24 | ” |
| 12 ozs. to 1 lb. | 32 | ” |
| and so on. | ||
(c)—FRENCH BOOK POST.
| Not exceeding 2 ozs. | 4 | cents. |
| 2 to 4 ozs. | 8 | ” |
| 4 to 8 ozs. | 16 | ” |
| 8 to 12 ozs. | 24 | ” |
| 8 ozs. to 1 lb. | 32 | ” |
| and so on. | ||
A Book Packet may contain any number of separate books, publications, works of literature and art, maps or prints, photographs, daguereotypes, when not on glass, or in frames containing glass; any quantity of paper, vellum, or parchment (to the exclusion of letters); and the books, maps, papers, &c., may be either written, printed, or plain, or any mixture of the three; and may be either British, colonial, or foreign.
Book Packages must be open at both ends or both sides.
(d)—PARCEL POST.
| Not exceeding ½ lb. | 12½ | cents. |
| ½ lb. to 1 lb. | 25 | ” |
| 1 lb. to 1½ lb. | 37½ | ” |
| 1½ lb. to 2 lbs. | 50 | ” |
| 2 lbs. to 2½ lbs. | 62½ | ” |
| 2½ lbs. to 3 lbs. | 75 | ” |
| 3 lbs. to 3½ lbs. | 87½ | ” |
| 3½ lbs. to 4 lbs. | $1.00. | |
Registration Fee, 5 cents.
Parcels can only be sent by Post to places in Canada, and may contain books, daguereotypes, photographs, printers’ proof and copy, military returns, states and rolls containing written figures and signatures, returns, deeds, legal papers, and all transmissions of a like character, not being strictly letters.
REGISTRATION.
No letter, book, newspaper, parcel or packet of any kind whatever, can in future be received for registration unless both postage and registration fee are fully prepaid; prepayment should, if possible, be by postage stamps.