Verlegers.

"Aussergew[:o]hnliche Zeitungsbeilagen d[:u]rfen nicht [:u]ber zwei
Bogen stark, auch nicht geheftet, geklebt oder gebunden sein; die
einzelnen Bogen m[:u]ssen in der Bogenform zusammenh[:a]ngen. Die
Postanstalten sind zur Zur[:u]ckweisung solcher Beilagen befugt, die
nach Gr[:o]sse und St[:a]rke des Papiers oder nach ihrer sonstigen
Beschaffenheit zur Bef[:o]rderung in den Zeitungspacketen nicht geeignet
erscheinen.

"Die Geb[:u]hr f[:u]r aussergew[:o]hnliche Zeitungsbeilagen betr[:a]gt
1/4 Pf. f[:u]r je 25 Gramm jedes einzelnen Beilage-Exemplars. Ein bei
Berechnung des Gesammtbetrags sich ergebender Bruchtheil einer Mark wird
n[:o]thigen Fallen auf eine durch 5 theilbare Pfennigsumme aufw[:a]rts
abgerundet."--_Allgemeine Dienstanweisung f[:u]r Post und Telegraphie_,
Berlin, 1901, Abschnitt V, i. p. 17.

[399] _Archiv f[:u]r Post und Telegraphie_, 1880, p. 279.

[400] 22nd August 1874.

[401] When in 1700 Dockwra was dismissed from the comptrollership, one
of the charges against him was that he forbade the acceptance of
band-boxes or other parcels over 1 pound in weight--to the great
inconvenience of traders and the peril of many sick folk who might have
received "phisick" by the Penny Post.

[402] 5 Geo. III, cap. 25.

[403] "In 1839 Sir John Burgoyne wrote to complain that, for a packet of
papers sent to him at Dublin, which had been forwarded from some other
part of Ireland by mail-coach, as a _letter_, instead of a _parcel_
(i.e. a coach-parcel), he had been charged a postage of [L]11; that is
to say, for a packet which he could easily have carried in his pocket,
he was charged a sum for which he could have engaged the whole
mail-coach, i.e. places for four inside and three outside passengers,
with their portmanteaus, carpet bags, etc."--_The Post Office of Fifty
Years Ago_, London, 1890, p. 7.

[404] "It has been suggested that if the proportional charge on Letters
by Weight was more gradual, many Things which now pass as Parcels by the
Mails and augment the Profit of the Proprietors would be sent by the
Post on Account of the superior Safety.

"It is certain that great Numbers of small Parcels are sent by the Mail
Coaches at an inferior Rate of Carriage, which, considering this
Establishment as a Species of exclusive Carrying Trade, must subtract
considerably from its Revenue." _Seventh Report_, July, 1797 (_Commons
Reports_, vol. xii. p. 189).

[405] E.g., in 1829 the Secretary reported