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Jamaica: Instructional

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Internal Mail Redirected

The Jamaica Post Office law of 1868 stated: Every re-directed letter, newspaper, parcel, or book-packet
is liable to an additional postage at the ordinary rate, (except such as are addressed to the military or navy).
(The redirection fee was abolished 1 Jun 1893).

Redirected Letter via Plantain Garden River to Vere

At Kingston
Obliterator A01
K11 (D22) of 25 June 1872

At Plantain Garden River
P5 (D1) of 26 Jun 1872
(known used 1850 to 1874)

At Kingston
K11 (D22) of 4 Jul 1872
At Vere
P11 (D2) of 6 Jul 1872

2d rate for under 30 miles paid with adhesive, additional redirection charge of 2d in manuscript.

Redirected Letter via Cold Spring to Gordon Town

At Linstead
D3 of 5 Mar 1878

At Kingston
K12 (B28) of 7 Mar 1879
(B3 previously unrecorded)

At Cold Spring
D2 of 7 Mar 1878

Redirected To
Gordon Town
D2 of 11 Mar 1878

2d rate for under 30 miles.
Addressed to Cinchona Plantation (Jamaica Botantical Gardens) care of Mrs Thompson, Gordon Town or Cold Spring PO.
No redirection fee applied (these two POs were adjacent). Robert Thomson was Superintendent of the Public Gardens & Plantations etc. in
Jamaica from 1867 to 1877 and left the Island in 1878.