Post office guide part i - India Post
Post office guide part i - India Post
Post office guide part i - India Post
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Letter cards of private manufacture, with perforated margins, suitably folded after<br />
gumming one side and fastening the other two sides with not more than two bits of gummed tape<br />
or other fasteners in such a manner as to permit without removing the fasteners necessary<br />
examination of the letter card, may be transmitted by post, provided the letter cards conform in<br />
other respects to the specifications mentioned in clause 107.<br />
107. Letter Cards of Private Manufacture. – Privately printed letter cards are permitted<br />
provided they conform to the following specifications:-<br />
(a) The weight of a letter card should not exceed three grams,<br />
(b) The dimensions of a letter card, when unfolded or folded, are within the following<br />
limits:<br />
UNFOLDED<br />
Maximum<br />
Minimum<br />
- 30 cm.x 21 cm.<br />
- 20 cm. x 14 cm.<br />
Flaps. – Not exceeding 2.5. cm. x 12.5 cm. on one side and 1.5 cm. x 7.5 cm. on the other.<br />
FOLDED<br />
Maximum<br />
Minimum<br />
- 15 cm. x 10.5 cm.<br />
- 10 cm. x 7 cm.<br />
(c)There shall be printed on the outside at the top left hand corner on the address side of<br />
every folded letter intended for inland transmission, the words “Inland Letter Card”.<br />
108. Conditions for the Transmission of Inland Letter Cards. – (1) Nothing will be<br />
attached to or enclosed in a Inland letter card.<br />
(2) The following rates shall be chargeable on the delivery of inland letter cards on which<br />
the postage is not prepaid or is insufficiently prepaid:<br />
On an unpaid letter card<br />
On an insufficiently paid Letter card<br />
Double the prepaid rate<br />
Double the deficiency<br />
However, should a letter card be posted infringing the conditions laid down for the<br />
transmission of such articles, it will be taxed as a letter and double the deficiency at letter postage<br />
rate will be recovered.