Barbados

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

Barbados

from UPU tables with much additional material courtesy of  Neil Donen

1/2d

  • Postcard, reply postcard, inland.
  • Braille items, anywhere, per 2½ lb, maximum: 11 lb
  • Printed paper, Commercial documents, Patterns, Samples, inland, per 4 oz, maximum: 4 lb.
  • Newspapers, inland per 6 oz or abroad per 2 oz, maximum: empire 5 lb, other 4 lb.
  • (Printed paper, Commercial documents, abroad, per 2 oz, maximum: 5 lb empire, 4 lb.foreign, per 2 oz, minimum rate: 2½d).
  • (Patterns/samples. abroad, per subsequent 2 oz, maximum: 5 lb empire, 4 lb.foreign).

1d

  • Letter, inland, per oz
  • Postcard, abroad.
  • Patterns, samples, abroad, first 4 oz, maximum: empire 5 lb, foreign 4 lb.
  • (Letter, empire, per subsequent oz).
  • (Small packets, abroad, per 2 oz, minimum rate: 5d, maximum: empire 5 lb, foreign 4 lb).

11/2d

  • Letter, empire, first oz.
  • (Letter, foreign, per subsequent oz)

2d

  • Reply postcard, abroad
  • (Registration fee, inland).
  • Parcel, inland, per subsequent ½ lbafter first lb, maximum: 5 lb.

21/2d

  • Letter, foreign, first oz
  • Printed paper, Commercial documents, abroad, minimum rate.
  • (Advice of delivery).
  • (Insurance, per subsequent £12 cover to a maximum of £60.)

3d

  • (Registration fee, abroad)

4d

  • Parcel, inland, up to 1 lb

5d

  • Small packet, abroad, minimum rate.
  • (Insurance fee, cover up to £12)

1/-

  • Parcel, Bermuda, British Guiana, British West Indies, up to 3 lb

2/-

  • Parcel, Bermuda, British Guiana, British West Indies, 3 to 7 lb.
  • Parcel, UK, up to 3 lb.

3/-

  • Parcel, Bermuda, British Guiana, British West Indies, 7 to 11 lb

3/3

  • Parcel, UK, up to 3 to 7 lb

4/3

  • Parcel, UK, up to 7 to 11 lb

5/-

  • Parcel, Bermuda, British West Indies but not Jamaica, 11 to 22 lb

6/9

  • Parcel, UK, 11 to 22 lb.

Annotation

( )  = Additions to standard rates

Shaded boxes:

 

Silver Jubilee denominations

 

Rates achievable solely with Silver Jubilee denominations

AJA - March 2011