Page 172 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL
P. 172
Jamaica: The Vendryes Provisional
Background: rates between Jamaica and the USA before 1890.
Jamaica and the USA were both members of the Postal Union, but until 1890 the half ounce letter
rate from Jamaica to the USA was 4d, while that from the USA to Jamaica was 5 cents (= 2½d).
The difference was that Jamaica chose to add the discretionary 1½d maritime surcharge allowed
under Postal Union rules. This disparity culminated in a debate in the Jamaica legislature in 1890.
1885, 4d from Jamaica to the USA.
Kingston: 19 August 1885.
New York: 27 August 1885.
1886, 5 cents from the USA to Jamaica.
New York: 15 October 1886.
per SS ‘Edith Godden’.
Kingston: 23 October 1886.
