Post office guide part i - India Post

154. Perfumes. – Perfumes though a spirituous preparation having in some cases a flash
point of 35.6°C (96°F) or below and a greater strength than 60°U.P may be transmitted by the
Inland Post subject to the following conditions: -
(a) The perfume must be filled in a glass bottle which should be plugged and capsuled.
The glass bottle should then be packed in a cardboard box with cushion inside.
(b) The cardboard box must be wrapped with strong paper placed in an outer wooden box
with corrugated paper and shavings.
(c) The outside of the wooden box should also be labeled in red letters “perfumes – keep
away from fire”.
155. Manner of Prepaying Postage. – The postage on a parcel, and also the registration
fee if the parcel is to be registered must be prepaid fully. Postage stamps must be affixed to, or
impressions of stamping machine taken on the cover of the parcel or an official label which can be
obtained free at the post office. In cases where postage stamps are used the sender or his
messenger must affix the stamps himself, postal official being strictly forbidden to affix them.
Should an official label be used it must be pasted to the parcel; and if the sender does not do this
himself he is recommended to see it done in this presence before he leaves the post office.
NOTE : If wax-cloth is used as an outer covering for protection and sufficient strong paper has not
been securely fastened outside the wax-cloth (se clause 15), it is advisable that the postage
stamps should always be affixed to an official label.
156. Manner of Posting. – (1) Every parcel (including service parcels) intended for
transmission by post must be presented at the window of the post office. Any parcel found in a
letter box will be treated and charged as a registered parcel.
(2) If a parcel containing any of the articles mentioned in sub-clause (2) and (3) of clause
147 and clauses 148 to 152 is not packed in the manner prescribed therein it will not be forwarded.
AIR MAIL SERVICE
157. Articles given air-lift. – All First Class mails and money order are given air
transmission as a matter of course, without payment of any additional air fee, wherever such air
conveyance is available and would be advantageous. Other classes of mails, viz., book, sample
and patter packets, registered newspapers, blind literature packets and parcels will be required to
be paid with the requisite air surcharge, if they are to be given air transmission.
NOTE : As a special case, all classes of mails for and from Agartala (Tripura State) are given air
conveyance between Agartala and Calcutta, and Agartala and airports in Assam without
any air surcharge.
158. Conditions. – (a) All surcharged air mail articles must bear the prescribed Blue Air
Mail label available gratis at the Post Office, on the top left-hand corner on the address side.