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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
FOREIGN POSTAGE RATES
155.-The Rate of Postage to be prepaid on letters for all Foreign Countries and other British possessions is shown in the attached table :-
Books,
ΤΟ
LETTERS
Not ex-Each ad- ceeding ditional
Single
Post Cards, each.
Reply Newsp's Regis-Receipt
Post Prices
tration
Cards, current,
each.
Return
for Regis-
1
OZ.
02.
etc, per Fee.
2 oz.
tered
Articles.
cents.
10
cents.
6
cents. cents.
4
8
cents. 2 *
cents.
10
cents.
10
UNION COUNTRIES (except as below)..
United Kingdom
Aden, (including Perim), Antigua, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Bermuda, British EastAfrica, British Guiana, British Honduras, British New Guinea (Papua), British North Borneo, British Somaliland, Brunei, Caicos Island, Canada, Cayman Islands, Ceylon, Cook (or Hervey) Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, Egypt, Egyptian Sondan, Falkland Islands, Fanning Island, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Gold Coast Colony, Grenada, India (British), including Chandernagore, Gud or, Karikal, Mahe, Pondicherry, and Yanam, Jamaica, Labuan, Lagos, Malay States, Malta, Mauritius, and dependencies, Montserrat, Nevis, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norfolk Islands, Rhodesia (South- ern), St. Helena, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, (British), South Africa, Union of, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Trinidad, Tristan d'Acunha, Turks Island, Uganda, Virgin Islands, Zanzibar.
Wei IIai Wei (Liu Kung Tau and Port Edward) and British Postal Agencies at Shanghai, Amoy, Chefoo, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow, Ningpo, Swatow and Tientsin
Canton (British Agency)...
Macao......
NON-UNION COUNTRIES :
4+
2(oz. † 2 oz.)t
Afghanistan (a)....
Arabia (Hejaz and Yamen)
Bahrein (Persian Gulf) and Muscat
offices named below
4 (c) 4
10 (c)
OD
61
00
2 *
10
10
N
10
10
1
10
10
China (V) (Chinese Post Offices) excluding
4 (4 oz) †4(3 oz.)†
1
2
10
10
Canton, Fatshan, Chan Chuen and Whampoa 2(oz.)†2(}oz.)+
Morocco (except Alc zar, Arcila, Casablanca,
Fez, Larache, Marrakesh, Mazagan,
Mequinez, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier -10 (c) and Tetuan, at each of which places British, French, German or Spanish P. O's maintains au agency under Postal Union Regulations
Nyasaland Protectorate & Rhodesia Northern)
Solomon Islands (German)
Tonga (Friendly) Island
Local Delivery
8
的
4
10
10
10 (e)
00
2
1
-
4
10
10
N
2
1
2
*
10
10
Commercial
Papers and Samples.
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents for commercial papers, and 4 cents for samples.
(a) Correspondence should bear the sender's name on the cover to avoid detention, by the Ameer's agent at Peshawar postage stamps are valid for the payment of postage on correspondence for Afghanistan as far as the Indian Frontier only for the transit thence to destination additional postaze is payable to the Afghan authorities
The foreign Post Offices in China are included in the Postai Union (c) Prepayment of postage is compulsory engle Newspapers to the following British Possessions foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 oz of traction thereof, vit Paperia, Ceylon, India, Netherlands Siam, Canada, Cored, Japan, New Zealand, Straits Settlements, China, Formosa, Macao, Philippince, and Timor † For Chinese real Hong Packets the rate is 4 cents per oz Pre-payment of postage on Postal Hong Packets is compulsory
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