Page 29 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL

Jamaica: Pre-Adhesive Postal Rates

UK Packet Rate
Packet Letter at 1s3d Rate to the UK plus 11d to London (1813 to 1839)

At this time the regular West Indies packet sailed into Falmouth, however, other naval ships sometimes also carried mail.
The regular packet to/from Jamaica was much delayed and this cover was sent 8 Feb 1837
by HM Ship Forte (Commander Pell), landing at Devonport on 25 March.

At Dry Harbour
Type T4 (albino)

At Kingston
Type K4
4 Feb 1837

At Devonport
Packet Letter /
Devonport
(2 years earlier
than recorded by
Robertson)

At London
Red receiving mark
27 Mar 1837

Inland rate of 7½d for less than 100 miles plus 2s2s = the packet rate to London from 1813 to 1839.
Devonport to London was over 230 miles, hence the rate of 1s applied.

Packet Letter at 1s3d Rate to Falmouth plus 1s2d to Edinburgh (1813 to 1839)

At Sav La Mar
Type T4 (PS5)
(in use 1834 to 1838)

At Kingston
K4 (D2) 10 Sep 1837
At Falmouth
Boxed ½ tax

At Edinburgh
cds of 24 Oct 1837

Rated 1s3d the Jamaica inland rate for > 100 miles
Falmouth to Edinburgh was c550 miles, hence the rate of 1s3d - 1d applied for between 500 and 600 miles.