Morocco  Agencies - British

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

Morocco Agencies - British currency & Tangier

from UPU tables with much additional material courtesy of Neil Donen

1/2d

  • Letter, local for Tangier, per 2 oz
  • Postcard, local for Tangier
  • Printed papers, domestic, per 2 oz - maximum 2 lb
  • Commercial papers, domestic, per 2 oz
  • Literature for the blind, anywhere, first 2 lb & each subsequent 3 lb - maximum 11 lb
  • (Commercial papers, abroad, per subsequent 2 oz - maximum 5 lb empire, 4 lb foreign)
  • (Printed papers, abroad, per 2 oz - minimum 1d, maximum 5 lb empire, 4 lb foreign)
  • (Sample, domestic, per subsequent oz - maximum 8 oz)
  • (Sample, abroad, per subsequent 2 oz - maximum 1 lb)

1d

  • Letter, per oz, Gibraltar or domestic beyond Tangier
  • Postcard, U.K., Gibraltar or domestic beyond Tangier
  • Sample, domestic, first 4 oz
  • Sample, abroad, first 4 oz
  • Printed papers, abroad, minimum
  • (Small packet, abroad, per subsequent 2 oz - maximum 2 lb)

11/2d

  • Letter, U.K. & empire*, first oz
  • Postcard, foreign
  • (Letter, foreign, per subsequent oz)

2d

  • Airmail printed matter, U.K., per half oz
  • (Insurance, per subsequent £12 cover)

21/2d

  • Letter, foreign, first oz
  • Commercial papers, abroad, first 10 oz

3d

  • Airmail postcard, U.K.
  • (Registration fee)
  • (Advice of delivery fee)
  • (Parcel, domestic, per subsequent 3 lb)

5d

  • Small packet, abroad, first 10 oz
  • (Insurance, £12 cover - valid only to Casablanca)

6d

  • Airmail letter, U.K. & Europe, per half oz
  • Parcel, domestic, first 2 lb
  • (Express rate)

Annotation

( )  = Additions to standard rates

*    = “Empire” here excludes Gibraltar (for which see separate entries), Transjordan & Iraq (regarded as foreign for these purposes)

Shaded boxes:

 

Silver Jubilee denominations

 

Rates achievable solely with Silver Jubilee denominations

 

Rate achievable with the complete Tangier Silver Jubilee set

AJA - August 2009