Page 37 - Jamaica PO Guide 1936

34 OVEBSEA MAlLS: Cl,ASiJPICATIOK.

VII. TuRKs lsLAl'l'l>S- A monthly mail service is maintained by the ~r.S. '· ~lay­
flower.'' Letter mail is also exchanged via New York.
Vlll. CuDA-Mails arc conveyed weekly by United Fruit Co's Steamer$ \"ill Unbana.
(The Cuban Post Office forwards only leltcrd 111ailtd in Hoba11a by the weekly l!lcnmcrs.
:Mail posted in other places is onh· forwarded vin Snntiago by occa.siooal opportunity.
Full mails for Cuba nrc forwarded from Jamaica by the weekly and any other oppor-
tunity.) There is no direct parcel-post exchange with Cuba..
Dy courtesy of the United Fruit Co., the following schedule of routes, etc., of the
regular mai!-carrying steamers is furnished.
NEW Yom~·Cuo.\-JAMAICA·CANAL ZoNE·COS'rA RICA SERVICE: A steamer leaves
New York every Thursday and calls at lhe following porls:-Uavann, IGngston (nrrivcs
and leaves Wednesday), Cristobal, Port Limon, llav:~n:~, New York-a round voyage
of 18 days.
NEw-YonK·llAI'I'J-JA~!AtCA-COLOMDTA-CANAL ZONE SEnvrcE: A steamer of the
Colombian Line lcnvcs New York every Thursday and calls at the following ports:-
P ort.-nu-Prince, l<ingston (arri\'CS and leaves Tuesday), Puerto Colombia, Ca.rtagena,
Cristobal, J(ingston (arrive& Tuesday, leaves Wcdne.•day), Port.-au·Prince. ~cw York
(arrives Monday), a round voyage of 19 days.
NEw YoRK-JAMAICA-PANAMA-COLOliBIA ER\'IC&: :\ steamer leaves 1'\ew York every
Saturday and c.~lls nt the following porta:-I<ingston (arrives and leaves Thuraday),
Cristoba.l, Cnrtngcna, Puerto Colombin, Santa Marta, JGngston (arrives nnd lr,rves
Friday), New York (arrives Wcdnesdny)- a round voyage of 1 days.
N&w OnLEANS-CUBA-JAMAtCA-BlliTISH HoNDVR>\S·GUATEMALA S&RVICE: .\ slenmer
leaves Now Orleans every two or three weeks und calls at the following ports:-d\n~ingo,
Kingston, Belize, Puerto Barrios, New Orleans.
BrusrovW&Bl' ll\'DI&s-V&NEZUELA-PANAMA·JAMATOA SERVICE : A Fyfl'es J.ine Rtcamer
(Elders & FyiTes, Ltd.) leaves Bristol every a lternate Monday calling at the following
ports:-Barbados, Trinidnd, La Gunim, Cristobal, I<ingston (arrives Monday nod leaves
Tuesday), Bristol (arrives Mond!Ly).
A Fyffes Line stcnmrr len,·es Bristol e,·ery other Wednesday or Thursday cnlling at
the following ports:- Kingston (arri\'CS Wedne.day or Thursday, leaves Friday), La
OuRira, Trinidad, Barbados. Bristol (arrives Sunday).
Elders & ~·ffes. Ltd., maintain a further ser\'iCC with the Gseat Britain and Europe,
but as the sniling days and routes of these boats vary somewhat according to the se:u;on
of the yea r their movements cannot be reduced to the precision of a schedule.
The following rs the schedule of the Caoodinn 1'\ational Steamships mail-<:arrying
steamers:-
CAl'ADA-BEJUIUD•\-~ASS.~t:-JAMAICA-BRITISII Hoxoun.\S SER\'J('£-A regular fortnightly
mail service from )lontrcnl during Summer months (and from Halifa.x during Winter
months) for Bermuda., Nassau and Jt~maica, returning over same route to ~lont.rea.l
during Summer months (a.nd to Halifnx during Winter months).
Also a fortnightly service from MorHrcal lo Jn.mnica during Summer months, calling
a t Halifax en route and from Halifax direct to Jamnica during the Winter months.
The above afforcls 11 rcg11lar weekly mail SE'rvice between Canada and Jamaica through-
out the year.
A ~teamer arri,·es at J amaica southbound e,·ery other Wedneschy and nturdny during
Winter months and e\·ery other l\londily during Summer months.
A northbound steamer leaves Jnmt~icll e,·ery other Tt•esda.y t~nd Wedne~day during
Wintc.r months and every other Thur:,dny during Summer months.
A rc~lar fortni~thtly mail ser,·ice stcnmcr is operated throughout the year between
Jamaica and Belize British Honduras . connectin,!l with steamers s:~iling fr('lm Jn m:~ ict~ on
l'uesdayF.
CLASS I t'ICATIO OF MAlL.
Foreign Correspondence is divided into the following classes:-
( a) Letters. (b) Post.cards. (c) Printed Papers. (d) Commercial Papers. (e) Samlllcs
(I) "Small Packets." (g) Parcel-Post Parcels.
For the Rotes of Postage on all Classes of mail matter limits of weight and size
etc., see page 52 and Table, pp. 54 to 6.3.
Ca) Letters posted wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid are forwarded, but are
charged on delivery with double the deficiency.
Unpaid and insufficiently prepaid letters from places abroad are charged double the
deficient postaa;e; the minimum surcharge iM ~d.