POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Ottawa, 13th December, 1882.
Departmental Order
No. 27
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Reply Post Cards.
2. For the convenience of correspondence by Post Card within the Dominion, a double Post Card has been prepared and is now ready for issue, which will afford to the original sender of this form of Card the means of sending with his communication, a blank prepaid Post Card to be used in reply. Each half of the double card will bear a one-cent postage stamp impressed thereon in prepayment.
The ordinary Post Card regulations will apply to these reply cards, both when originally posted, and with respect to the reply half when re-posted.
The reply or double Post Cards, will be issued at two cents each, and are to be sold to the public at that rate by Postmasters and stamp vendors.
Canada reply Post Cards, to be used in correspondence with the United Kingdom, will also be supplied at an early date, and when Post Cards of this description originating in the United Kingdom and bear
ing the impressed postage stamp thereof on both halves, have been received here by mail, the reply half may be re-posted in Canada, for return to an address in the United Kingdom, as a prepaid Post Card, and may be forwarded to destination without requiring the addition of any Canada postage stamp or other postage prepayment in Canada.
JOHN CARLING,
Postmaster General.