Page 19 - Farrimond Jamaica Miscellany

JAMAICA

Postal history up to UPU membership
Packet mail

Packet letters to the United Kingdom

At sixpence per half ounce the packet letter rate to the United Kingdom was insufficient to cover the costs of the
West Indian packet service. Consequently, on 1 April 1863 the rate was increased from six pence to one
51
shilling.

1863 Cover from Kingston to London

Mailed in Kingston
on 3rd April 1863; the
first mail at the new
rate

Carried on RMSP
Derwent to St.
Thomas and then on
RMSP Shannon to
Southampton

Kingston: A01 numeral
obliterator
Also a K9a single ring
eds of 3 April 1863
London: Red single arc
paid eds of 28 April
1863

1871 Cover from Gordon Town to Portsmouth

Mailed in Gordon Town,
the packet rate paid by a •
pair of watermark Crown .. ..
CC six pence stamps.
This use predates the
recorded date of issue
(1 51 March 1871).

Part of the Henry Kent
correspondence

Gordon Town: A42 numeral
obliterators
Also PS double arc
datestamp of 8 February
1871
Kingston: K10 single ring
eds of 8 February 1871
(late use)
Portsmouth: Single ring eds
of 27 February 1871 on the
back

Carried on RMSP Elbe from Kingston on gth February to Plymouth, arriving 261h February 1871