No Franking Privilege is allowed under the New Act, except with regard to Letters and Packets on the business of the Post Office, addressed to or transmitted by the Post Master General.
A reduction in the charge of Book Post Packets when not exceeding 4 oz.
There were scarcely swords enough to go round, and the gunpowder was served out in little packets like so many doses of salts to the small band of royalists.
Back near the entrance, they dropped down, eased their heavy burdens to the snowy floor, and joyously opened up their packets of sandwiches and thermos bottles of steaming hot chocolate.
Now and again the boy sent in little packets of such things as bloodroot, wild ginseng, and bay leaves.
Newspapers and book packets must not be put in town pillar-boxes.
The postage charged on foreign and colonial letters is too small to pay for the mail-packets and other expenses; profit is derived only from the inland letters.
In circumstances so grave, and with such a responsibility, commanders of packets could not take refuge behind their innocence, or argue that the consul of the United States had not taken pains to forewarn them.
Can it be that mail packets have the singular privilege of facilitating such operations without failing in the duties of neutrality?
It has been sought to assimilate mail packets to vessels of war, and consequently to except them from the exercise of the right of search.
It is clear that when the exercise of the right of search was defined by precedents and treaties, mail packets did not exist.
Mason and Slidell, it belonged in any case to the Southern cruisers to stop and search the packets in which they had taken passage.
They are put up in Packets marked 1, 2, & 3, according to the size of the Dog.
Sold by Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors, in Packets 1s.
Through its agency over a million letters and postal packets are returned to senders annually.
This increase in the letter packets has the effect of retarding the postmen in effecting their deliveries, inasmuch as they have to search in their bags for the packages which they cannot carry tied up in consecutive order.
These packets are liable to charge at letter postage rates unless they are made up in such a manner as will admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination.
Newspapers, packages, and book packets are sorted separately, and subsequently put into their respective bags.
Nearly every one of the 500 packets received was then sent out for delivery without delay, no doubt to the astonishment of those who received the biscuits in envelopes from the Returned Letter Office.
On the eve of St. Valentine the energies of the staff, which was limited as compared with now, were formerly greatly taxed to get rid of the enormous piles of packets which flooded the various receptacles in the city.
So far as this city is concerned, letters and book-packets over two ounces in weight, which are now blended in one post, are quadrupled in number at the Christmas season.
These were generally not lucid, but ambiguous and confused, especially when he came to packets sealed with exceptional care.
On the 20th of September, two packets landed several persons of distinction, amongst whom were the Archbishop of Aix, and Count Bridges, one of the household of the hapless Louis XVI.
A great attraction to the Chain Pier, after the packets ceased running to and from Dieppe, was a band of music that entertained the company who promenaded the Pier-head.
Other packets he swept into different drawers of the table.
And the price of the bargain is, I suppose, the surrender of those three packets of letters?
Ten minutes later, Monsieur de Granville was in possession of the letters in three sealed packetsthat had not been opened!
I have the packets of letters from Madame de Serizy and Madame de Maufrigneuse.
Dropping documents on the open cover of dispatch box, picking up the pile of several account books and packets of papers, and rising.
Starkweather} (In course of packing dispatch box, he sets certain packets of papers and several medium-sized account books to one side in an orderly pile.
During the following scene he does not look around, being occupied with working the combination, opening the safe, putting away account books and packets of papers, and with examining other packetswhich are in safe.
To one side is the orderly stack of the several account books andpackets of papers.
The labels on the packets before us have--"pour fixer et lisser les cheveux.
Best divide the candy all round," said Fay, receiving the packets from Maude, and sharing them among the competitors.
Merle performed her errand quickly, returning with twopackets of sweets, one for Billy and the other for the rest of the party.
I'll ask Maude to buy me some packets of candy when she goes home, and bring them to school this afternoon.
You've heard of old Labonte, who used to carry one of the winter packets from Red River until within a few years back?
Margate packets were sailing every day, filled with men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent.
The only uncovered articles were packets of writing-paper of the kinds most used by Brahms, supplied in sufficient quantities to last some time.
The two candlesticks became cream-jugs, the pincushion a sugar-basin, the packets of perfume proved to be tablets of unscented soap.
From information received by the police, a further search was made in the house, with the result that two packets were discovered under the feather bed in Mrs. Holmes' bedroom.
It was taken in by her daughter, who recognised his handwriting, and the envelope is also supposed to have contained two packets of strychnine.
A tradesman's almanack on one wall, a picture from an illustrated paper on the other, two or three bottles of hair-wash and a few packets of hair-pins seemed to constitute the whole stock in trade.
One cannot live on a few packets of hair-pins and a bottle of hair-oil.
The merchants, after some negotiation, visited him at Bideford, and, after many protestations of honour and integrity, received several packets of diamonds and some vessels of gold to dispose of.
Looking over the late Packets of Letters which have been sent to me, I found the following one.
The Project which I published on Monday last has brought me in several Packets of Letters.
During my Absence in the Country, several Packets have been left for me, which were not forwarded to me, because I was expected every Day in Town.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
