✨ Parcel Post Rate Schedule




DEC. 11.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1317

SCHEDULE-continued.
FOREIGN PARCEL POST RATES, VIA LONDON.

Colony or Country. Route from New Zealand. Route or Means of Conveyance from London. Rate of Postage. Maximum Dimensions. Special Prohibitions.
REUNION .. Via France Not exceeding 2lb .. s. d. 4 10

Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 7 4
7lb 7 9 | Greatest length, 2ft.;
greatest length and
girth combined, 4ft. | Letters.

RHODES (see TURKEY). | | | | |

ROUMANIA | Direct steamers to London | Via Cologne. | Not exceeding 2lb .. 4 1
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 7
3lb 7 0 | 2ft. in any direction | Letters, plants, or parts of
plants, except seeds and dried
roots.

| | Via Hamburg.. | Not exceeding 2lb .. 3 9
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 3
7lb 6 9 | " | Ditto.

ST. CROIX
Delivery of parcels confined to
chief post office. | Ditto | Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamers | Not exceeding 2lb .. 3 5
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 5 11
3lb 7 2
7lb 11lb10 11 | Same as Inland Par-
cel Post | Letters.

ST. HELENA | Ditto | Union and Castle
Lines of mail
packets | Not exceeding 1lb .. 1 9
Exceeding 1lb but not exceeding 2lb 2 5
For each additional lb or fraction of
a lb up to 11lb .. 1 2 | Ditto | Bullion, ostrich-feathers, base
coin, books infringing British
copyright, Cape brandy, arrack,
Bengal rum, agua ardente.

ST. JOHN (same as ST. THOMAS).

ST. KITTS (see LEE WARD ISLANDS).

ST. LUCIA
Delivery of par-
els confined to
chief post office. | to London | Direct steamers | Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamers | Not exceeding 1lb .. 1 9
Exceeding 1lb but not exceeding 2lb 2 5
For each additional lb or fraction of
a lb up to 11lb .. 1 2 | | Letters.

STE. MARIE DE MADAGASCAR (same as NOSSI-BÉ).

ST. THOMAS
Delivery of par-
els confined to
chief post office. | to London | Direct steamers | Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamers | Not exceeding 2lb .. 3 5
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 5 11
3lb 7 2
7lb 11lb10 11 | |

ST. VINCENT, West
Indies
Delivery of par-
els confined to
chief post office. | Ditto | Ditto.. | Not exceeding 1lb .. 1 8
Exceeding 1lb but not exceeding 2lb 2 3
For each additional lb or fraction of
a lb up to 11lb .. 1 2 | |

SALONICA (see TURKEY).

SARAWAK | Direct steamers
to London | Peninsular and
Oriental steam-
ers from the
Thames | Not exceeding 1lb .. 2 1
Exceeding 1lb but not exceeding 2lb 3 1
For each additional lb or fraction of
a lb up to 11lb .. 1 6 | |

SARDINIA (see ITALY).

SENEGAL | Direct steamers
to London | Via France | Not exceeding 2lb .. 4 0
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 6
3lb 7 1 | Greatest length, 2ft.;
greatest length and
girth combined, 4ft. | Letters.

SERVIA | Ditto | Via Austria | Not exceeding 2lb .. 4 1
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 7
3lb 7 0 | 2ft. in any direction | Letters, parts of the vine.

| | Via Cologne. | Not exceeding 2lb .. 4 1
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 7
3lb 7 0 | |

| | Via Hamburg. | Not exceeding 2lb .. 3 9
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 3
7lb 6 9 | |

SICILY (See ITALY).

SIERRA LEONE | Ditto | African and Bri-
tish and African
Companies'
steamers | Not exceeding 1lb .. 1 10
Exceeding 1lb but not exceeding 2lb 2 7
For each additional lb or fraction of
a lb up to 11lb .. 1 3 | Same as Inland Par-
cel Post. |

SMYRNA
Parcels are de-
livered on applica-
tion by addressees
at Customhouse. | " | Cunard and Pa-
payanni steam-
ers direct from
Liverpool | Via Liverpool.
Not exceeding 2lb .. 3 2
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 5 8
3lb 7 8
7lb 11lb10 2 | Ditto | Letters, firearms, tobacco, salt,
plants, swordsticks, materials
for the composition of gun-
powder, books unfavourable to
the Ottoman Government.

| | Via France. | Not exceeding 2lb .. 4 0
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 6
3lb 7 1 | Greatest length, 2ft.;
greatest length and
girth combined, 4ft. | Letters, articles of exceptional
value, tobacco, salts, firearms.

SPAIN
A list of the
places in Spain to
which parcels may
be transmitted
can be consulted
at any post office. | Direct steamers
to London | Via France | Not exceeding 2lb .. 3 9
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 6 lb 6 3 | Greatest length, 2ft.;
greatest length and
girth combined, 4ft. | Letters, firearms and ammu-
nition, air-guns, reproductions
of Spanish maps or plans, mis-
sals, breviaries, rosaries, relics,
&c., plants, articles of excep-
tional value.

STRAITS SETTLE-
MENTS (Malac-
ca, Penang, Pro-
vince Wellesley,
and Singapore) | Ditto | Peninsular and
Oriental Com-
pany's steamers
via the Thames | Not exceeding 1lb .. 1 10
Exceeding 1lb but not exceeding 2lb 2 4
For each additional lb or fraction of
a lb up to 11lb .. 1 0
Parcels for H.M. ships on the China
station must be prepaid at the rate of
parcels for Hongkong | Same as Inland Par-
cel Post | Opium, spirits.

Parcels will also be accepted, at sender's risk,
for Johor, Perak, Selangor, and Sungie Ujong, in
the Malayan Peninsula; but such parcels, except
those for Johor, will be liable to a charge on de-
livery, for transmission from Penang to Singapore.



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πŸš‚ Continuation of Foreign Parcel Post Rates Schedule via London (continued from previous page)

πŸš‚ Transport & Communications
11 December 1889
Parcel Post, Rates, Schedule, International Mail, Postage, Table, Prohibitions, Customs