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Jamaica: Pre-Adhesive Postal Rates

Ship Letters to the UK
Ship Letter at Rate: Ship Letter charge 4d + UK Inland (1799 to 1814)

At Morant Bay
Written
29 Mar 1806

At Cork
Dated 31 May 1806

At London

Rated 1s8d (including
UK inland fee from
Cork to Dublin to
London)
The Irish Ship Letter
fee remained at 1d until
1815.

At Kingston
Letter dated 18 Jul 1813
Feint Ship Letter / Jamaica?

At Deal
Ship Letter / Deal
14 Oct 1813

At London
½d Scottish Toll Tax

At Edinburgh.
Receiver ?? Oct 1813

Re-rated 3s = Double (Ship Letter Rate of 4d
plus UK inland of 1s2d for 400 to 500 miles)
plus ½d Scottish tax.

Per HMS Asia, built 1811, a ship of the
74th convoy during the Anglo-American
War of 1812 to 1815.