Samples of merchandise: Packages not in excess of 4 ounces, 2 cents. Packages in excess of 4 ounces, for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof, 1 cent. Limit of weight, 12 ounces.
Mail matter in United States addressed to CANADA and CUBA is subject to same postage rates and conditions as addressed for delivery in United States, except that the following articles are absolutely excluded from the mails:
All packages closed against inspection and not in usual form of a letter; all packages, except single volumes of printed books, {136} which weigh more than 4 pounds 6 ounces; publications which violate any copyright law of Canada, Cuba, or Republic of Panama.
Unsealed packages of “commercial papers” are admitted to the mails dispatched from this country to Mexico and Canada at the same rate and subject to the same conditions as to weight and dimensions as apply to commercial papers in mails dispatched to other countries of Universal Postal Union.
FOREIGN PARCELS POST
Parcels Post conventions are in effect with the following countries, the rate of postage being 12 cents a pound or fraction: Australia,[28] Austria,[28] Bahamas, Barbadoes,[28] Belgium,[28] Bermuda, Bolivia, British Guiana, British Honduras, Chili, certain places in China; Costa Rica, Denmark.[28] Dutch Guiana — Parcels cannot be registered. Ecuador — Parcels must not exceed $50 in value. France — Parcels cannot be registered and must not weigh over 4 pounds 6 ounces or exceed $50 in value. Germany. Great Britain and Ireland — Parcels cannot be registered. Guatemala, Honduras, Hongkong,[28] Hungary,[28] Jamaica, Japan.[28] Mexico — Limit of size, 2 feet in length, 4 feet in girth. Netherlands[28] — Parcels cannot be registered. Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway,[28] Peru, Salvador, Sweden,[28] Trinidad. {137} Uruguay — Parcels cannot be registered. Venezuela, Windward Islands.
[28] Parcels not to exceed $80 in value.
Parcels Post packages may be mailed only at the main post-office or at branch carrier stations after each package has been examined and is attached to a parcels post declaration.
MONEY ORDER FEES
Fees for money orders payable in the United States (which includes Hawaii and Porto Rico) and its possessions comprising the Canal Zone (Isthmus of Panama), Guam, the Philippines, and Tutuila, Samoa; also for orders payable in Bahamas, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Cuba, Newfoundland, at the United States postal agency at Shanghai (China), and in certain islands in the West Indies: