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JAMAICA

Postal history up to UPU membership
Packet mail

Packet letters to the United Kingdom

Jamaica joined the General Postal Union on 1 April 1877, whereupon the packet letter rate was reduced from
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one shilling to six pence for a half ounce letter to all countries in the Union.

1878 Wrapper from Annotto Bay to London

A packet letter
paid at the six
pence rate and
carried on RMSP
Para to Plymouth

Annotto Bay: A28
numeral obliterators
Also P11 single ring
datestamp of 7
October 1878
Kingston: K11 single
ring eds of 8 October
1878
London. Large red
paid eds of 28
October 1878
Provenance: ex Wood
1878 Wrapper from Annotto Bay to London
Double rate packet letter of
the same correspondence
with one shilling in stamps,
carried on RMSP Medway
from Kingston to Plymouth

Annotto Bay: A28 obliterators
Also P11 single ring eds of 8
November 1878
Kingston: Partial K11 single
ring eds on the back
London: Large red paid eds of
2 December 1878

Provenance: ex Wood