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INLAND
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Dates |
LETTER
RATE - Up to 2 ounces (oz),
then ½d each additional 2
oz
|
|
14/5/23 to 30/4/40
|
1½d |
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1/5/40 to 30/4/52
|
2½d
|
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Dates |
POSTCARDS |
|
29/5/23 to 30/4/40
|
1d |
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1/5/40 to 30/4/52
|
2d |
|
Dates |
REGISTERED LETTERS |
|
Letter Rate |
Fee |
Compensarion |
| 1922 to 1940 |
1½d |
3d |
Subject to extra fee |
| 1940 to 1949 |
2½d |
3d |
£5 |
| 1949 to 1952 |
2½d |
4d |
£5 |
| 1952 to 1956 |
2½d |
6d |
£5 |
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Dates |
PRINTED
PAPERS
|
|
29/5/23 to 30/4/40
|
½d - for every 2 oz |
|
1/5/40 to 31/5/51
|
1d - Up
to 2 oz, then ½d each additional 2 oz
|
| 1/6/51 to 31/12/55 |
1½d - Up to 4 oz, then ½d
each additional 2 oz |
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Dates |
NEWSPAPERS (registered with the Post Office) |
|
1/9/20 to 30/6/40
|
1d - Up to 6 oz, then ½d each
additional 6 oz up to 1 lb 14 oz 3½d
- 1 lb 14 oz to 2 lb (max) |
|
1/7/40 to 31/5/56
|
1½d - Up to 4 oz, then ½d each
additional 4 oz up to 2 lb (max) |
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Dates |
COMMERCIAL SAMPLES |
|
23/5/32 to 30/4/40
|
1d - Up to 4 oz, then ½d each
additional 2 oz up to 8 oz (max) |
|
1/5/40 to 31/12/55
|
1½d - Up to 4 oz, then ½d each
additional 2 oz up to 8 oz (max) |
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Dates |
PARCELS |
|
1/7/35 to 30/6/40 |
6d - Up to 3 lb, then 1d per lb
up to 8 lb
8 lb to 15 lb (max) 1/- |
|
1/7/40 to 5/1/47 |
7d - Up to 3 lb, then 1d per lb
up to 8 lb
8 lb to 15 lb (max) 1/1 |
|
6/1/47 to 28/12/47 |
8d - Up to 3 lb, then 1d per lb
up to 8 lb
8 lb to 15 lb (max) 1/2 |
|
29/12/47 to 30/7/50 |
9d - Up to 3 lb
11d - Up to 4 lb, then 1d per lb
up to 8 lb
8 lb to 15 lb (max) 1/4 |
|
31/7/50 to 30/6/51 |
10d - Up to 3 lb
1/- - Up to 4 lb
1/2 - Up to 5lb, then 1d per lb
up to 8 lb
8 lb to 15 lb (max) 1/6 |
|
1/7/51 to 30/3/52 |
11d - Up to 3 lb, then 2d per lb
up to 6 lb
1/6 - Up to 7 lb
1/7 - Up to 8 lb
8 lb to 15 lb (max) 1/8 |
| Dates |
PARCELS TO IRISH REPUBLIC |
| 1949 - start and end date for
these rates? |
6d - Up to 2 lb, then 3d per 3 lb up to 11 lb
(max) |
| December 1951 - start and end
date for these rates? |
1/- - Up to 2 lb, then 3d per 3 lb up to 11
lb (max) |
Notes - Rates as issued in post office stamp booklets for
this date.
[The fact that it was cheaper to send various weights of parcels to Ireland compared
to Inland was recognised at the time. In the House of Commons (21 July 1943)
Mr. Henry Brooke M.P. asked the Postmaster-General whether he was aware that
at existing rates of postage it was cheaper to send a parcel under two
pounds weight to Eire than to an address anywhere in Great Britain or
Northern Ireland; and whether he will alter this?
Captain Crookshank replied "Yes, Sir; this has been the case since 1940,
when it was decided to retain the existing rates for parcels to Eire
although war-time increases were being made in the rates for inland parcels.
It is advantageous that the parcel post rates from the United Kingdom to
Eire should be (as they now are) the same as those in the reverse direction
and within Eire, and I do not as at present advised propose to alter the
existing rates."]
OVERSEAS
|
Dates |
SURFACE
LETTERS - EMPIRE RATE |
|
15/6/35 to 30/4/40
|
1½d - Up to 1 oz, then 1d per oz
up to 4 lb (max) |
|
1/5/40 to 30/9/57
|
2½d - Up to 1 oz, then 1d per oz
up to 4 lb (max) |
|
Dates |
POSTCARDS - EMPIRE RATE |
|
15/6/35 to 30/9/50
|
1d |
|
1/10/50 to 30/9/57
|
2d |
|
Dates |
SURFACE
LETTERS - FOREIGN RATE |
|
15/6/35 to 30/4/40
|
2½d - Up to 1 oz, then 1½d per oz
up to 4 lb (max) |
|
1/5/40 to 30/6/48
|
3d - Up to 1 oz, then 1½d per oz
up to 4 lb (max) |
| 1/7/48 to 30/9/50 |
3d - Up to 1 oz, then 2d per oz up to 4 lb
(max) |
| 1/10/50 to 30/9/57 |
4d - Up to 1 oz, then 2½d per oz up to 4 lb
(max) |
|
Dates |
POSTCARDS - FOREIGN RATE |
|
15/6/35 to 30/4/40
|
1½d |
|
1/5/40 to 30/9/50
|
2d |
| 1/10/50 to 30/9/57 |
2½d |
|
Dates |
GENERAL
PRINTED PAPERS - maximum weight varied
|
|
1/7/1892 to 30/4/49
|
½d - Up to 2 oz, then
½d each additional 2 oz |
|
1/5/49 to 30/9/50
|
1d - Up
to 2 oz, then ½d each additional 2 oz
|
| 1/10/50 to 30/9/57 |
1½d - Up to 2 oz, then ½d
each additional 2 oz |
Notes - a reduced
rate applied to newspapers and non-commercial printed items from 1/10/50, cost
as the previous 1940 rate.
|
Dates |
COMMERCIAL PRINTED PAPERS - maximum
weight varied
|
|
14/5/23 to 30/6/48
|
2½d - Up to 10 oz, then
½d each additional 2 oz |
|
1/7/48 to 30/4/49
|
3d - Up
to 12 oz, then ½d each additional 2 oz
|
| 1/5/49 to 30/9/50 |
3d - Up to 10 oz, then ½d
each additional 2 oz |
| 1/10/50 to 30/9/57 |
4d - Up to 12 oz, then ½d
each additional 2 oz |
|
Dates |
COMMERCIAL SAMPLES |
|
13/6/21 to 30/4/49
|
1d - Up to 4 oz, then ½d each
additional 2 oz up to 1 lb (max) |
|
1/5/49 to 30/9/50
|
1d - Up to 2 oz, then ½d each
additional 2 oz up to 1 lb (max) |
| 1/10/50 to 30/9/57 |
1½d - Up to 2 oz, then ½d each additional 2
oz up to 1 lb (max) |
Air Mail [my booklets just say ask at any Post Office]
In 1937 Imperial Airways started flying letters to South
Africa for 1½d. This was to be the start of an 'Empire Airmail Scheme' by which
letters could be sent anywhere in the British Empire for the same cost as the
Inland letter rate. The 2nd World War ended the scheme.
The
7d and
8d definitives [why 2 rates?], (27-2-1939) were needed for the
first regular airmail services to North America which began at the end of June,
1939 when Pan American Airways flew from Southampton on the west bound journey.
4th August 1939, Imperial Airways began their service to Canada, and special
printed envelopes were produced for this flight.
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