Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal StationeryHowes, Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong)
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Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery
Howes, Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong)
Postage stamps -- Canada; Postal stationery -- Canada
4. To promote simplicity and economy in the business of the Post
Office, all letters posted in Canada for any place within the
Province, and not prepaid, shall be charged seven instead of five
cents per half ounce on delivery; and on letters posted for the
British Mails, for the other British North American Provinces, or
for the United States, when not prepaid, there shall be charged such
addition to the ordinary rate, not in any case exceeding a double
rate, as the Post Master General may agree upon with the Post Office
Authorities of those Countries, for the purpose of enforcing
prepayment.
5. The Post Master General may establish a Parcel Post and parcels
other than letters and not containing letters, may be sent by such
Parcel Post, and when so sent shall be liable to such charges for
conveyance and to such regulations as the Governor in Council shall
from time to time see fit to make.
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8. [_To inclose a letter in a parcel or a newspaper, posted as such,
is a misdemeanor._]
From the above Act we see that the transmission of newspapers has again
been subjected to revision looking toward an increase of revenue, all
free transmission by post being now limited to exchange copies between
editors or publishers. The making of prepayment by stamps obligatory was
another step which had been quite strongly recommended in the last
Postmaster General's report in these terms:--
No single improvement would be so valuable to the Post Office
service as the introduction of the system of the pre-payment of
letters by stamp. It is not recommended that pre-payment of letters
should be made absolutely compulsory, but where stamps are readily
procurable, pre-payment in that form should be insisted on, and the
principle of pre-payment should be enforced by imposing an
additional charge on letters posted unpaid.
By referring to the Act subsequently passed we see that these
recommendations were carried out to the letter.
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