An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail.
Defn: The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.
The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.
And if the federal government has no such power it has no right of espionage and it may not say of what “mailable matter” consists (p.
Hence the federal statutes which provide punishment for postmasters who may “unlawfully detain” or “improperly detain” mailable matter, would not operate.
If the proposed legislation simply made such matter non-mailable and penalized any attempt to use the postoffice for its carriage, it would probably be free from objection.
As was pointed out in an early case, “No government has ever organized a system of posts without securing to itself, to some extent, a monopoly of the carriage of letters and mailable packets.
Congress, therefore, very early exercised the right of determining what articles should be mailable and the conditions upon which they should be carried.
As to when one, who does not personally mail non-mailable matter, may be regarded as causing it to be deposited in the mails, see Demolli v.
Make regulations concerning mailable matter and limits of weight and dimensions of such.
All letters and other mailablematter addressed to or sent by the Governor of Canada.
One hundred and sixty dollars and other mailable matter were found where he said they were concealed.
No government has ever organized a system of posts without securing to itself a monopoly of the carriage of letters and mailable matter; but this was never intended to control individual enterprise in the express line.
The following matter is exempt from Provincial Postage: All letters and other mailable matter addressed to or sent by the Governor General of Canada, or addressed to or sent by any Public Department at the seat of Government.
Bound volumes of any periodical or newspaper published in Canada, if bound in a form to come within mailable dimensions, that is to say, not exceeding two feet in length, breadth or thickness, nor exceeding 4 lbs.
It would break up entirely all clandestine or private conveyance of Mail matter across the ocean, and virtually empty into the English mail bags all the mailable communications, even to invoices, bills of lading, &c.
Under the Postage Act of 1851, the Postmaster, by and with the advice of the President, has power to reduce, from time to time, the rates of postage on all mailable matter conveyed between the United States and any foreign country.
