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, local, per ounce
  • (Commercial papers, overseas, per 2 oz - 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
  • (Airmail fee* to Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo)

6d
  • Small packet, foreign, minimum rate, till June
  • Parcel, Canada [max 20 lb] USA [max 11 lb], per lb
  • (Airmail fee* to Bermuda)
  • (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/-
  • Parcel, British West Indies, up to 3 lb

1/2
  • (Airmail fee* to Br Honduras, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua)

1/4
  • (Airmail fee* to Curacao, Venezuela)

1/5
  • (Airmail fee* to Bahamas)

1/7
  • Parcel, UK, up to 3 lb

2/-
  • Parcel, British West Indies, 3 - 7 lb

2/10
  • Parcel, UK, 3 - 7 lb

3/-
  • Parcel, British West Indies, 7 - 11 lb

4/-
  • Parcel, UK, 7 - 11 lb

5/-
  • Parcel, Antigua Br Guiana Grenada Trinidad St Vincent Bermuda, 11 - 22 lb

6/6
  • Parcel, UK, 11 - 22 lb

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