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JAMAICA

Postal history up to UPU membership
Packet mail

Steamship letters to the United States of America

1866 Cover from Kingston to Gorham, New York

A single rate packet
letter sent at the four
pence American
steamship rate from
Kingston

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Kingston: A01 numeral
duplex cancel of 7 July
1866
New York: Circular
Steamship 10 cents
postage due marking
Provenance: ex Wood

From 1866 the four pence steamship rate was paid to the operator of the packet, and indicated by a "4"
manuscript accountancy mark. In May 1868 the Jamaica Post Office Law authorized a charge for inland postage
on packet mail posted or delivered in Kingston which up until that date had enjoyed an exceptional exemption
from such charges.

1870 Cover from Kingston to Marblehead, Massachusetts

Packet letter carried •
on the RMSP Neva to
Colon (Canal Zone,
Panama), from where
it was carried to New
York by an American
steamer, probably of
the Aspinwall Line

Kingston: A01 numeral
duplex cancel of 21
November 1870
Also accountancy "4" in
red crayon
Colon: Single ring eds of
23 November 1870
New York: N.Y. Steamship
"1 o· single ring eds of 11
December (1870) for the
10 cents postage due for
US inland postage