Gold Coast

Postal rates (first draft) at the time of the 1935 Silver Jubilee from:

Gold Coast

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

1/2d

  • Braille items for the blind, foreign, up to 2 lb
  • Newspapers, books, samples, inland, per 2 oz
  • (Braille items for the blind, foreign, per subsequent 3 lb, from July)
  • (Printed Paper, empire & foreign, per 2 oz, [minimum 1d, commercial papers minimum 2½d])

 

1d

  • Postcard or letter [per oz], inland
  • Postcard or letter [per oz], empire [including Egypt but not Palestine]
  • Printed Paper, foreign, minimum

 

11/2d

  • Postcard, foreign
  • (Letter, foreign, per subsequent ounce)

 

21/2d

  • Commercial papers, empire & foreign, minimum
  • (Advice of receipt fee)
  • (insurance fee, empire & foreign, per subsequent £12)

 

3d

  • Letter, foreign, first ounce
  • (Registration fee)

 

6d

  • (insurance fee, empire & foreign, for up to £12)

 

1/-

  • Parcel, inland, up to 3 lb

 

2/-

  • Parcel, inland, exceeding 3 lb but not exceeding 7 lb
  • Parcel, other West Coast British Colonies, up to 3 lb

 

2/3

  • Parcel, U.K., up to 3 lb

 

3/-

  • Parcel, inland, exceeding 7 lb but not exceeding 11 lb
  • Parcel, other West Coast British Colonies, exceeding 3 lb but not exceeding 7 lb

 

3/6

  • Parcel, U.K., exceeding 3 lb but not exceeding 7 lb

 

4/-

  • Parcel, other West Coast British Colonies, exceeding 7 lb but not exceeding 11 lb

 

4/9

  • Parcel, U.K., exceeding 7 lb but not exceeding 11 lb

 

5/-

  • Parcel, inland, exceeding 11 lb but not exceeding 22 lb

 

7/-

  • Parcel, U.K., exceeding 11 lb but not exceeding 22 lb
  • Parcel, other West Coast British Colonies, exceeding 11 lb but not exceeding 22 lb

 

Annotation

( )  = Additions to standard rates

Shaded boxes:

 

Silver Jubilee denominations

 

Rates achievable solely with Silver Jubilee denominations

AJA - July 2008