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Postal Rates Bahamas
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Descriptor
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Rate
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Commentary
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Inland and Interinsular
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- Letter per two ounce (oz)
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1½d
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- Printed papers, Commercial papers
Samples - per 2 oz
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1d
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- Newspapers and books
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Free
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Empire
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- Letter first ounce
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1½d
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Each additional oz = 1d. Letters to Canada 1½d per 2 ozs
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- Post card
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1½d
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- Books & Printed papers per 2 oz
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½d
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- Commercial papers per 2 oz
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½d
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Minimum charge 2½d
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- Samples per 2 oz
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½d
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Minimum charge 1d
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- Small packets per 2 oz
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1½d
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Minimum charge 6d. Maximum weight 2 lbs.
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Foreign
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- Letter first ounce (oz)
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2½d
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Each additional oz = 1½d
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- Post card
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1½d
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- Books & Printed papers per 2 oz
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½d
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- Commercial papers per 2 oz
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½d
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Minimum charge 2½d
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- Samples per 2 oz
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½d
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Minimum charge 1d
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- Small packets per 2 oz
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1½d
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Minimum charge 6d. Maximum weight 2 lbs.
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- Literature for the Blind first 2 lbs
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½d
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Each additional 3 lbs to maximum of 11 lbs = ½d
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Parcel Post
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- Bermuda, British Honduras, Jamaica per lb
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6d
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- Great Britain
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<3 lbs = 1s 6d; 3-7 lbs = 4s; 7-11 lbs = 6s; 11-22 lbs = 7s 6d
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- Canada
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<10 lbs (per lb) = 6d; 10-15 lbs = 6s; 15-20 lbs = 8s
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- United States of America per lb
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9d
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Other
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- Registration fee
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2d
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- Recorded delivery
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2½d
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- Express fee
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6d
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Notes
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Airmail Rates from Bahamas 
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Destination
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Letter
per ½oz
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Postcard
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NORTH AMERICA
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Canada
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6d
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3d
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USA
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8d
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4d
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Mexico
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1s 9d
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CENTRAL AMERICA
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El Salvador, Guatemala
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1s 11d
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Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama
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2s 5d
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CARIBBEAN
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U.S. Virgin Islands
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1s 2d
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British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad, Windward Islands
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1s 8d
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Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Haiti, Puerto Rico
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1s 9d
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Barbados
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1s 10d
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Leeward Islands
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2s 4d
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Guadeloupe, Martinique
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2s 5d
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SOUTH AMERICA
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British Honduras
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1s 10d
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Venezuela
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2s 3d
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British Guiana, Paraguay, Uruguay
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3s 6d
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Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, French Guiana
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3s 7d
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Columbia
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4s 1d
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Bolivia, Peru
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4s 7d
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Brazil, Chile
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5s 9d
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Argentina
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6s 3d
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EUROPE
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Great Britain
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6d
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3d
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Elsewhere in Europe
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1s 3d
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AFRICA
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Egypt
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1s 2d
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Algeria, Morocco, Rio Oro, Tinisia
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1s 6d
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Anglo Egyptian Sudan
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1s 7d
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Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda
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1s 9d
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Madagascar, Zanzibar
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1s 10d
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Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland (via Salisbury), Southern Rhodesia
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2s
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Belgian Congo North East (via Sudan), Portuguese East Africa (via Mocambique)
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2s 1d
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South Africa
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2s 3d
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Nyasaland via Blantyre
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2s 4d
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Sierra Leone
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2s 5d
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Dahomey, French Equatorial Africa, French Sudan, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mauretania, Nigeria, Senegal
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2s 6d
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South West Africa
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2s 7d
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Belgian Congo South (via Northern Rhodesia)
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2s 8d
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MIDDLE EAST
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Syria, Transjordan
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1s 1d
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Palestine
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1s 2d
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Iraq, Persia
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1s 7d
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Bahrain
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1s 9d
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Syria, Trans-Jordan
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1s 11d
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Lebanon
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2s
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ASIA
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India, Burma (via air to Karachi only)
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1s 8d
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Burma, Ceylon, India (All air)
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2s
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Siam
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2s 5d
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Malay States, Sarawak, Straits Settlements
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2s 6d
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Brunei, North Borneo
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2s 7d
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Asia)
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2s 8d
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Hong Kong
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3s 4d
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French Indo-China, South China
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3s 5d
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OCEANIA
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Australia
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3s 3d
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Dutch East Indies
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2s 11d
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