INLAND POSTAGE RATES
Letters
For a weight not exceeding twenty grams Rs. 5.00
For every twenty grams, or fraction thereof,
exceeding twenty grams
Rs. 5.00
Letter-cards
For a letter-card Rs. 2.50.
Post cards
Post cards (not being post cards containing printed communication, competition post cards or
Meghdoot post cards)
Single 50 paise
Reply Re. 1.00.
Meghdoot post cards
Post cards containing printed advertisement on the address side (not being post cards containing
printed communication or competition post cards)
For a Meghdoot post card 25 paise.
Printed post cards
Post cards containing printed communication (not being competition post cards or Meghdoot post
cards)
For a post cards Rs. 6.00.
Explanation.—A post shall be deemed to contain a printed communication, if any matter (except the
name and address of, and other particulars relating to, the sender and the place and date of dispatch) is
recorded by printing or by cyclostyling or by any other mechanical process, not being typewriting, on any
part of the post card except the right hand half of the address-side thereof.
Competition post cards
For a post card Rs. 10.00
Explanation.—A post card shall be deemed to be a competition post cards if tit is used in response to
any competition organized on or through television, radio, newspaper, magazine or any other media.
Book, pattern and sample packets
For the first fifty grams or fraction thereof Rs. 4.00
For every additional fifty grams, or fraction
thereof, in excess of fifty grams
Rs. 3. 00
Registered newspapers
For a weight not exceeding fifty grams 25 paise
For a weight exceeding fifty grams but not
exceeding one hundred grams 50 paise
1. Subs. by 20 of 2002, s. 156, for the First Schedule (w.e.f. 1-6-2002).
20
For every additional one hundred grams, or
fraction thereof, Exceeding one hundred grams
20 paise
In the case of more than one copy of the same issue of a registered newspaper being carried in the
same packet—
For a weight not exceeding one hundred, grams 50 paise
For every additional one hundred grams, or
fraction thereof,
exceeding one hundred grams
20 paise:
Provided that such packet shall not be delivered at any addressee’s residence but shall be given to a
recognized agent at the Post Office.
Parcels
For a weight not exceeding five hundred grams Rs. 19.00
For every five hundred grams, or fraction
thereof, exceeding five hundred grams
Rs. 16.00.]
THE SECOND SCHEDULE. [Enactments repealed.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914
(10 of 1914), s. 3 and the Second Schedule.