HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
APPENDIX II.-RATES OF POSTAGE
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The Rate of Postage to be prepaid on letters, etc., for all Foreign Countries and other possessions is shown in the attached table :-
ΤΟ
LETTERS
Not ex-Each ad- ceeding ditional
1 oz.
Books,
Oz.
Return Single Reply Newsp's Regis. Receipt
Post Post Prices Cards, Cards, current, each. each. etc., per
2 oz.
for
tration
Regis.
Fee.
tered
Articles.
cente.
10
cents.
8
cents.
cents.
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, Cayınan 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, Gundur, Karikal, Mahé, 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 Hai Wei (Liu Kung Tau and Port Edward) and British Post Office Agencies at Shanghai, Amoy, Chefoo, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow, Ningpo, Swatów and Tientsin
Canton (British Agency)..
Macao...
China (b) (Chinese Post Offices) excluding|
offices named below
00
2
10
10
4 +
4+
1
2
10
10
2 oz.)† 20 oz.)†|
|4 (} oz) † 4(3 oz.)tļ
1
A
19
10
10
Canton, Fatshan, Chan Chuen and Whampoa 2(} oz.)†2(} oz.)†
NON-UNION Countries :-
-
Afghanistan (a)...
4 (c)
Arabia (Hejaz and Yamen)
Bahrein (Persian Gulf) and Muscat
10 (c)
4
Morocco (except Alcazar, 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. Ös. maintain an Agency under Postal Union Regulations Nyasaland Protectorate & Rhodesia Northern)
Solomon Islands (German) .
Tonga (Friendly) Islands..
Local Delivery....
2
N
6
8
2
|
Commercial |
Papers and Samples.
1
I
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents for commercial papers, and 4 cents for samples.
10
10
I
Į
4
10 (c)
6
N
A
10
10
I
2
10
10
2 * 10
10'
(a) Correspondence should bear the sender's name on the cover to avoid detention by the Ameer's agent at Peshawur. Hongkong postage stamps are valid for the payment of postage on correspondence for Afghanistan as far as the Indian Frontier only; for the (b) The foreign Post Offices in China are transir theocê to destination additional postage is payable to the Afghan authorities.
included in the Postal Union. (e) Prepayment of postage is compulsory. Newspapers published in Hongkong and posted singly to the following Places are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 oz. or fraction thereof, viz.:-Australia, Canada, Ceylon, China, Corea, Formosa, India, Japan, Macao, Netherlands India, New Zealand, Philippine Islanda, Sfam, Straits Settlements, Timor and United Kingdom. ↑ For Chinese Postal Hody Packets the rate is 4 cents per joz. Prepayment of postage on Postal Hong Packets is compulsory.
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