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'Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930' [‎32v] (67/483)

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The record is made up of 1 file (229 folios). It was created in c 1930-c 1939. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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38
Foreign Post,
containing photographs, pictures, drawings, plans, maps, catalogues, pros
pectuses, announcements and notices of various kinds, whe -her pnn e ,
engraved, lithographed A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. , or mimeographed, and in general, all impres
sions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means
of printing, engraving, lithography, mimeography or any other mecia-
nical process easy to recognise, except the copying- press and the type
writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. .
Reproductions of a munuscript or type-written originl obtained
by a manifolding process such as hectography and cromography, etc.,
are allowed to pass as a printed papers, provided that they are handed in
at the post office counter and number at least twenty copies precisely
identical.
The undermentioned articles are excluded from transmission at the
rate applicable to printed papers :—
Postage stamps, whether obliterated or not, and any printed matter
representing a monetary value.
Blank paper, note-paper or envelopes (with or without a printed
address), and other articles of stationery pure and simple.
128. Packing.—Printed papers must be made up in such a man
ner that they can be easily examined. They may be placed in a wrap
per; upon a roller; between boards; in a case opened at both sides oral
both ends or in an unclosed envelope or they may be secured with a
string easy to untie; or they may singly folded, but in such a manner
that other articles cannot slip into the folds.
129. Permissible Additions or Alterations. —Printed papers,
which bear any marks whatever capable of constituting a conventional
language, or the text of which has been modified after print ng save in
the manner explicitly authorised by the exceptions below, cannot be sent
at the rate for printed papers :—
1. It is allowed, outside or inside a packet of printed papers
(a) to indicate by hand or by a mechanical process, the name,
position, the profession, firm, and the address of the sender
of the addressee, as well as the date of despatch, the signa
ture telephone number, telegraphic address and code, and
postal cheque-or banking account of the sender ;
(b) to correct errors in printing :
(c) to strike out, to underline, or to enclose by marks, certain
words or certain parts of a printed text, unless this is done
with the object of constituting personal correspondence.
2. It is also allowed to indicate or to add by hand or by mechani
cal process ;
(a) in advices of the departure and arrivals of ships, the dates
and times of departures and arrival as well as the names of
the ships and theports of departure, call and arrival ;

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Content

Printed volume containing details and rules of posting in Iraq.

Key chapters in the volume cover:

  • Inland post
  • Foreign post
  • Foreign parcel post
  • Money orders
  • Official post articles
  • Railway post letters
  • Telegraphs.

There are some loose folios in an envelope, placed at the back of the volume. These contain amendments suggested to the parcel postage section; their author and date are unknown.

Extent and format
1 file (229 folios)
Arrangement

The volume’s contents are arranged into eight sections. Contents pages (ff 6-9) lists the chapters, and refer to page numbers.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 231; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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English in Latin script
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