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POSTAL DIRECTORY— RATES.
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LIST OF COUNTRIES IN THE POSTAL UNION, IN ADDITION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Antigua ; Argentine Republic ; Australia ; Austria-Hungary ; Azores.
Bahamas ; Barbados ; Belgium ; Bermuda ; Bolivia ; Brazil ; British Borneo ; British Guiana ; British
Honduras ; British New Guinea ; Bulgaria.
Cameroons ; Canada (Dominion of) ; Ceylon ; Chili ; Colombia, Republic of ; Congo, including Black
Point, Majumba, arid Nyanza ; Costa Rica ; Cyprus.
Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland) and Danish Colonies, viz. — Greenland, St Croix,
St John, and St Thomas ; Dominica ; Dominican Republic (San Domingo).
Ecuador ; Egypt.
Falkland Islands ; Fiji Islands ; France and French Colonies, viz. — Martinique, Guadeloupe and
dependencies, French Guiana (Cayenne), Senegal and dependencies, Gaboon, and Grand Ba'ssam
(also Sette Cama and Assinie), Reunion, Comoro Islands, Mayotte and dependencies, Majunga,
St Mary and Tamatave (Madagascar), New Caledonia and dependencies, the French portion of
the Low Archipelago, and the French Establishments in India (Pondichery, Chandernagor,
Karikal, Mabe, and Yanaon) and in Cochin-China.
Gambia ; Germany and German Colonies, viz. — Marshall Islands, New Guinea (portion of), Samoa
(Apia), Togo Territory, including Bageida, Little Popo, Lome, and Porto Seguro, and territory in
South "West Africa, viz. Grand Namaqua, the Damaras Country, and southern portion of Ovambo ;
also Bagamoya and Dar-es-Salaam, Lindi, and Tanga in East Africa ; Gibraltar (including the
British Post Offices at Tangier, Laraiche, Rabat, Casablanca, Saffi, Mazagan, and Mogador) ;
Gold Coast ; Greece ; Grenada ; Grenadines ; Guatemala.
Hawaiian Islands ; Hayti ; Honduras (Republic of) ; Hong Kong.
India ; Italy. Jamaica ; Japan. Labuan ; Lagos ; Liberia ; Luxemburg.
Madeira ; Malta ; Marquesas Islands ; Mauritius and dependencies ; Mexico ; Montenegro ; Montserrat.
Netherlands and Netherlands Colonies, viz. — Dutch Guiana (Surinam), Curacoa and dependencies,
viz. — Bonaire, Aruba, the Netherlands portion of St Martin, St Eustache, Saba, Java, Madura,
Sumatra, Celebes, Borneo (except north-west part), Billiton, Archipelago of Banca, Archipelago
of Riouw, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Floris, and the south-west part of Timor),
the Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the north-west part of New Guinea (Papua) ; Nevis ;
Newfoundland ; New Zealand ; Nicaragua ; Norway.
Paraguay; Patagonia; Persia; Peru; Portugal and Portuguese Colonies, viz. — Goa and its dependencies
(Damoa and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Islands and dependencies (Bissau and Cacheu),
Islands of St Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Delagoa
Bay, and Mozambique.
Roumania ; Russia.
St Kitts ; St Lucia ; St Pierre-et-Miquelon ; St Vincent, West Indies ; Salvador ; Servia ; Seychelles ;
Siam ; Sierra Leone ; Spain (including Balearie and Canary Islands) and Spanish Colonies, viz. —
Cuba, Porto Rico, Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies, Philippine Islands, and Marian
Islands ; Straits Settlements ; Sweden ; Switzerland.
Tahiti ; Tobago ; Tortola ; Trinidad ; Turkey ; Turk's Islands.
United States ; Uruguay. Venezuela. Zanzibar.
COLONIAL AND FOBEIGN RATES OF POSTAGE
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* Except places mentioned in list of Postal Union Countries.
(c) denotes that prepayment is compidsory ; (6) that the Registration is incomplete, to Port of Arrival only.
No packet of Newspapers, Printed Matter, or Commercial Papers, for transmission to Countries of the Postal
Union, must exceed 18 inches in length, or 1 foot in width or depth, and no such packet for other places abroad
must exceed 2 feet in length or 1 foot in width or depth ; the extreme limit of weight is 4 lb. for a single packet
for Countries in the Postal Union, and 5 lb. for other Countries.
Pattern and Sample Packets for places in the Postal Union must not exceed S inches in length. 4 inches in
width, 2 inches in depth, or 8 ounces in vnight, except those for Belgium, Canada, Prance, Greece, Italy, Japan
Luxemburg, Portugal, Switzerland, the Argentine Republic, and the United States, the limits for which are 1 foot
in length, 8 inches in width, 4 inches in depth, and 12 ounces in weight. For non-Union Countries the limits are
the same as for Book Packets. For dates of despatch and arrival of mails, see following pa.ges