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Jamaica: Pre-Adhesive Postal Rates
UK Packet Rate
Jamaica Express
The Jamaica Post Office offered express post within the island.
Customers used this to ensure that post reached a ship about to sail.
The additional fee was 2s6d, more than double the packet rate.
This entire from Black River to Great Britain is helpfully inscribed
by the Black River Postmaster, Alexander Girdwood: “J P P Express pd. 2/6 A G”.
AT BLACK RIVER: BLACK RIVER / JA (Foster Type T3)
AT KINGSTON: Fleuron Type 1
BRITISH transit mark 18 October 1806
Rated 4s8d 2s2d double packet rate plus 2s6d express fee.
