Bahamas

Postal rates at the time of the 1935 Silver Jubilee from:

Bahamas

from UPU tables with much additional material courtesy of  Neil Donen

1/2d

  • Braille items, foreign, first 2 lb & per subsequent 3 lb up to 11 lb
  • Books & printed papers, abroad, per 2 oz
  • (Commercial papers, abroad, per 2 oz, minimum rate: 2½d)
  • (Samples, abroad, per 2 oz, minimum rate: 1d)

1d

  • Printed papers, commercial papers, samples, within the islands, per 2 oz
  • Samples, abroad, minimum rate
  • (Letter, empire, per subsequent oz [but Canada = 1½d per 2 oz])

11/2d

  • Letter, within the islands, per 2 oz
  • Letter, empire, first oz, [but Canada: per 2 oz]
  • Postcard, abroad
  • (Small packet, abroad, per 2 oz, minimum: 6d, maximum: 2 lb)
  • (Letter, foreign, per subsequent oz)

2d

  • (Registration fee)

21/2d

  • Letter, foreign, first oz
  • Commercial papers, abroad, minimum rate
  • (Recorded delivery fee)

3d

  • Air postcard, GB, Canada

4d

  • Air postcard, USA

6d

  • Air letter, GB, Canada, per half oz
  • Small packet, abroad, minimum rate
  • Parcel, Bermuda, British Honduras, Jamaica, per lb
  • Parcel, Canada, per lb for up to 10 lb
  • (Express fee)

8d

  • Air letter, USA, per half oz

9d

  • Parcel, USA, per lb

1/2

  • Air letter, US Virgin Islands, Egypt, Palestine, per half oz

1/3

  • Air letter, Non-GB Europe, per half oz

1/6

  • Air letter, Algeria, Morocco, Rio Oro, Tunisia, per half oz
  • Parcel, GB, up to 3 lb

1/7

  • Air letter, Sudan, Iraq, Persia, per half oz

1/8

  • Air letter, British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Windward Islands, India, Burma [via Karachi], per half oz

1/9

  • Air letter, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Haiti, Puerto Rico, KUT, Bahrain, per half oz

1/10

  • Air letter, Barbados, British Honduras, Madagascar, Zanzibar, per half oz

1/11

  • Air letter, El Salvador, Syria, Transjordan, per half oz

2/-

  • Air letter, The Rhodesias, Nyasaland [via Salisbury], Lebanon, Burma, Ceylon, India [all air], per half oz

2/1

  • Air letter, Belgian Congo NE [via Sudan], Portugese E Africa [via Mozambique], per half oz

2/3

  • Air letter, Venezuela, South Africa, per half oz

2/4

  • Air letter, Leeward Islands, Nyasaland [via Blantyre], per half oz

2/5

  • Air letter, Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Sierra Leone, Siam, per half oz

2/6

  • Air letter, Dahomey, French Sudan, French Equatorial Africa, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mauretania, Nigeria, Senegal, Malaya, Sarawak, per half oz

2/7

  • Air letter, South West Africa, Brunei, North Africa, per half oz

2/8

  • Air letter, Belgian Congo South [via N Rhodesia], USSR, per half oz

2/11

  • Air letter, Dutch East Indies, per half oz

3/3

  • Air letter, Australia, per half oz

3/4

  • Air letter, Hong Kong, per half oz

3/5

  • Air letter, French Indo-China, South China, per half oz

3/6

  • Air letter, British Guiana, Paraguay, Uraguay, per half oz

3/7

  • Air letter, Dutch & French Guiana, Ecuador, per half oz

4/-

  • Parcel, GB, 3 to 7 lb

4/1

  • Air letter, Columbia, per half oz

4/7

  • Air letter, Bolivia, Peru, per half oz

5/9

  • Air letter, Brazil, Chile, per half oz

6/-

  • Parcel, GB, 7 to 11 lb
  • Parcel, Canada, 10 to 15 lb

6/3

  • Air letter, Argentina, per half oz

Annotation

( )  = Additions to standard rates

Shaded boxes:

 

Silver Jubilee denominations

 

Rates achievable solely with Silver Jubilee denominations

 

Rate achievable with the complete Silver Jubilee set

AJA - July 2010