New Zealand Gazette – 1905 – No. 62

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✨ Postal Routes and Rates

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LIST OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO WHICH POSTAL UNION
RATES OF POSTAGE ARE CHARGED;† ALSO THEIR ROUTES OF
TRANSMISSION.

[Special attention is directed to annotations (a) and (b).]

(a) Denotes that the limit of weight of pattern and sample packets for these
countries is 12oz. (The maximum dimensions and weight for patterns and samples for
the United Kingdom, Australia, and other countries are stated at sections 18 and
19, page 11, “Limits of Size and Weight for Patterns and Samples.”)

(b) Denotes that gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., may be sent to these
countries by registered letter-post. (Such articles, however, if addressed to any of the
other countries with which New Zealand has parcel-post exchanges can be sent by
parcel-post, except in cases in which they are specially prohibited. See “Parcel
Post” in the Post and Telegraph Guide.

For prohibited articles, see “Prohibitions.”
Shortest route in roman type; alternative routes in italics.

Country, &c.	Route, via	Country, &c.	Route, via
Abyssinia ..	Colombo.	ANTIGUA (Leeward Islands)	New York. Suez-London.
Accra ..	London.	Arabia ..	Colombo.
ADEN ..	Colombo.	Argentine Republic	Monte Video.
Addah ..	London.	ASABA (Niger Coast Protectorate)	London.
Afghanistan* ..	Tuticorin.	Ashantee ..	London.
Africa, East ..	Colombo.	Asia, Central ..	Tuticorin.
Africa, West ..	London.	ASCENSION b ..	London.
Ahgwey ..	London.	AUSTRALIA b ..	Direct.
AKASSA (Niger Coast Protectorate)	London.	Austria-Hungary ..	S. Frisco-London. Brindisi or Naples. Plymouth.
AJUDA (Portuguese Colony)	London.	Azores ..	S. Frisco-London. Rio de Janeiro.
Albania ..	S. Frisco-London. Colombo.
Alexandretta ..	Colombo. S. Fris’co-London.
Algeria ..	S. Fr’isco-London. France.
Ambrizette ..	London.	Bagamoyo b ..	Colombo.
AMOY (British Postal Agency)	Hongkong. Colombo.	Bagdad ..	Tuticorin.
Andorra ..	S. Fr’isco-London. Brindisi or Naples. Plymouth.	BAHAMAS ..	New York. Suez-London.
	London.	Balearic Islands ..	S. Frisco-London. Brindisi or Naples. Plymouth.
ANGOLA (Portuguese Colony)		BARBADOS ..	New York. Suez-London.
Annam ..	Sydney. Colombo.	Basutoland b ..	Cape Colony.
Annobon ..	London.	Bechuanaland b (liable to additional charge on delivery)	Cape Colony.
Anguilla ..	New York. Suez-London.

The Postal Union rates prepay letters as far as the Indian frontier only. Correspondence
for Afghanistan intended for free delivery should therefore be addressed to the care of some
agent at Peshawur, who should be instructed to pay the extra postage charged by the Ameer of
Cabul on correspondence passing through his territory. Mail-matter addressed to Afghanistan
direct will be charged on delivery double the Afghan postage—i.e., 5 annas per “miscal,” or about
5d. for one-seventh of an ounce.

† To the United Kingdom and many other places named in a list
on PAGE 3 the postage-rate on letters is 1d. for each half-ounce or
fraction thereof; such places are indicated in this list by being
printed in CAPITALS. In a few special cases where the rates of post-
age are not ordinary Postal Union rates the actual rates payable
are indicated by a footnote.

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