Page 36 - Jamaica PO Guide 1934

32 OVJ!;RSEA M.HU): CLASSIFICATION.
VII. TuRKS IsLANDs-A monthly mail ser vice is maintained by the M.S. " May-
Bower." Letter mail is nlso exchanged via New York.
VIII. CuDA-Mails arc conveyed weekly by United Fruit Co's Steamers via Habana.
(The Cuban Post Office forwards only letters mailed in llabana by the weekly stenmers.
Mail posted in other places is only forwarded via Santiago by occasional opportunity.
Full mails for Cuba arc forwarded from Jamaicrl by the weekly and any other oppor-
tunity.) There is no direct parcel-post exchange "'·ith Cuba.
By courtesy of the United Fruit Co. the following schedule of routes, etc., of the
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regular mail-carrying steamers is furmshed.
NEw YORK·CunA-JAMAICA·CANAL ZoNE-COSTA RICA SERVICE: A steamer leaves
New York every Thursday and calls at the following ports:-Havana, l{ingston (arrives
and leaves Wednesday), Cristobal, Port Limon, Havan11., New York-a round voyage
QC 18 days.
Nmw-YoRK·IiAITI-JAMAICA·COLOMBIA-CANAL ZoNm SERVICE: A steamer of the
Colombian Line leaves New York every Thursday nod calls at t.he following ports:-
Port-nu-Prince, Kingston (arrives and leaves Tuesday), Puerto Colombia, Cartagena,
Cristobal, Kingston (arrive& Tuesday, leaves Wednesday), Port-au-Prinoe, New York
, arrives Monday), a round voyage of 19 days.
NEw Yonx-JAt.tAJCA-PANAWA·COLOMBIA SERVTCE: A steamer leaves New York every
Saturday and calls at the following ports:-Kingston (n.rrives and leaves Thursday),
Cristobal, Cartagena, Puerto Colombia, Santa Marta, Kingston (arrives and IMves
Friday), New York (arrives Wednesday)-a round voyagE> of 1R days.
NEw 0RLEANS·CusA.JAwtcA-BruTISB HoNDuRAs-GuATEMALA SERVICE: A steamer
leaves New Orleans every two or three weeks and calls at the following ports:-Santiago,
Kingston, Belize, Puerto Barrios, New Orleans.
BRISTOL-WEsl' INDIES-VENEZUELA-PANAMA.-JAMAICA SER\'JCE: A Fyfl'es I.ine steamer
(Elders & Fyffes, Ltd.) leavt'S Bristol every alternate Monday calling at thll Col'oiVing
ports:-Barbados, Trinidad, Le. Guaira, Cristobal, Kingston (arrives Monday and leaves
Tuesday), Bristol (arrives Monday).
A Fyffes Li.ne steamer lenves Bristol every other Wednesday or Thursday cnlling at
the following ports:-Kingston (arrives Wednesday or Thursday, lca.ves Friday), La
Gunira, Trinidad, Barbados, Bristol (arrives Sunday).
Elders & Fyffes, Ltd .. maintain a further service with the United Kingdom and Europe,
but as the sailing days and routes of these boats vary somewhat according to the ·season
of the yeu their movem')nfs cannot be reduced to the precision of a schedule.
The following is the schedule of the Canndian National Ste:~mships mail-carryio
atcamers:-
CANADA-BEn.MUDA-NASSAU·JAMAICA-BmTisn HONDURAS SERVICE-A regular fortnightly:
mail service from Montreal during Summer months (and from Halifa.x during Wint
months) for Bermuda, Na.~sa.u and Jamaica, returning over same route to Montrea
during Summer months (and to Halifax during Winter months).
Also a. fortnightly service from i\Iontreal to Jamaica during Summer months, callin
a.t Halifax en route and from Hali!ax direct to Jamaica during the Winter months
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The above affords a regular weekly mail service between Canada and Jamaica through
out the year.
A steamer arrives at J amaica southbound every other Wednesday and S:~turday duri
Winter months and every other l\fond~y during Summer months.
A northbound steamer leaves Jam:Ucn every other Tl•esday and Wednesday durin
Winter months and every othrr Thursday during Summer months.
A re;rular fortnightly mail service ste11mer is operated tbroul!hout the year bet wee
Jam~ica a.nd Belize British Honduros. connect.ing with Ste:lmers sailing frpm Jumdca o
Tuesdays.
CLASSIFICATION OF i'JAIL.
Foreign Correspondeuce is divided into the following classes:-
(a) Letters, (b) Post-cards, (c) Printed Papers. (d) Commercial Papers. (e) Sample
(I) " Small Packets," (g) Parcel-Post Parcels.
For the Rates of Postage on all Claases of mail matter limits of weight and siz
etc., aee page 50 and Table, pp. 52 to 6 1.
la) Letters posted wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid are forwarded, but a
charged on delivery with double the deficiency. ·
Unpaid and insufficiently prepaid letters from places abroad are charged double t
deficient postage; the minimum surcharge is ,d.