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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
4
Guidance on using private boxes with a postal sorter, penalties for underpaid letters, and advice on money orders. Details cover rates for Commonwealth offices, New Zealand, Fiji, and other regions, plus how to handle letters, postal notes, and parcel shipments.
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The text outlines postal charges for various items within Australia and to overseas. It details rates by weight bands for letters and printed matter, including newspapers, books, and pamphlets, and notes registration for valuable items. It also mentions late mail postings and a late fee for letters within the Commonwealth.
Commercial papers include all papers and documents not wholly printed which have not the character of dental correspondence such as accounts.
A Commonwealth era notice explains parcel handling across Australia including weights, stamps, and avoiding double postage. It notes that parcels must be handed to parcel offices for weighing, advises against splitting papers, and outlines registration limits, certificates, insurance, and full address requirements for letters.
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