Cayman Islands

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

Cayman Islands

from UPU tables with additional material courtesy of Neil Donen & John Cooper

¹/₄d	Postcard, local
¹/₂d	Letter, local Items for the blind, foreign, up to 2lb Items for the blind, foreign, per subsequent 3lb, from July (Printed paper, foreign, per ounce - minimum 1d)
1d	Postcard, overseas Printed paper, foreign, minimum rate Letter, Empire, from 1936 (Parcel, local, per subsequent ounce) (Registration fee, local) (Letter, Empire, per subsequent ounce) (Small packet, foreign, from July, per 2oz - minimum 5d)
1¹/₂d	Letter, Empire, 1st ounce, [reduced to 1d for 1936] (Letter, foreign, per subsequent oz) (Small packet, foreign, till June, per 2oz - minimum 6d)
2d	(Registration fee, overseas) (Recorded delivery, overseas) (Advice of delivery of registered items)
2¹/₂d	Letter, foreign, first oz (Registration return reciept from overseas)
3d	Parcel, local, first lb
5d	Small packet, foreign, minimum rate, from July
6d	Small packet, foreign, minimum rate, till June (Airmail fee* to Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo) (Insurance per £12 value)
6¹/₂d	(Airmail fee* to Bermuda, Canada, Japan, U.K., U.S.A.)
8d	(Airmail fee* to Canal Zone)
11d	(Airmail fee* to Barbados, Leeward Islands)
11¹/₂d	(Airmail fee* to Germany)
1/2	(Airmail fee* to Br Honduras, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua)
1/4	(Airmail fee* to Curacao, Venezuela)
1/5	(Airmail fee* to Bahamas)

Annotation

( ) = Additions to standard rates

* = Airmail fees are per 1/2oz and to be added to normal postal rates. (Although perhaps short-lived, an airmail service, from Jamaica, was offered at these rates. Such items had to be posted no later than half an hour before the advertised sailing of the M.S. Cimboco).

Shaded boxes:

	Silver Jubilee denominations
	Rates achievable solely from Silver Jubilee denominations


	A.J.A. August 2007