Page 27 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL

Jamaica: Pre-Adhesive Postal Rates

UK Packet Rate
Jamaica Inland fees had to be prepaid but the packet and UK inland charges tended to be collected upon receipt
due to the high incidence of loss until after the Napoleonic war and the replacement of sailing packets with steam.

Packet Letter at 1s Rate to Falmouth plus 10d to London (1801 to 1805)

At Kingston
Two line Jamaica J5 (PS12)
/ 20 Mar 1803

At London
May 1803

Rated 1s10d = 1s packet rate
plus 10d London rate.

Packet Letter at 1s1d Rate to Falmouth plus 11d to London (1805 to 1812)

At Kingston
Written 13 Jun 1807

At London
Receiver of 20 Jul 1807

Rated 2s.