Page 412 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL

Jamaica Registration: Compulsory Registration.

Compulsory registration of a packet returned to England: 1907.
Post between Britain and the colonies was subject to compulsory registration if it contained certain
valuables, including money. Any such item detected was taken out, registered and surcharged.

Cover from Britain, unclaimed in Jamaica, returned to Britain and there compulsorily registered.
2½d (the UPU rate;
should be the Empire rate
of 1d, or 2d double).

Llangollen: 19 March 07.
Kingston:
· 4 April 07;
· UNCLAIMED;
· red Returned Letter
Branch (type A)
3 June 07;
· 3 June 07.

At the Returned Letter
Office in London, the
letter was opened in
search of a return
address, and the contents
detected and noted in
blue crayon:
Draft £50 - J O B.

The London Returned Letter Office compulsorily registered the returned letter and enclosed it in this
Ambulance Envelope for return to the original sender, who was charged the registration fee of 2d.

Returned Letter Office, Ex Vivien Sussex.
Registered: 5 July 07.
Llangollen: 6 July 07. ← On the reverse.