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Postage rates. Domestic, colonial & foreign

0016 General-Post-Office, London, April 5th, 1792
Raguin Code: –9202
Postage of a Single Letter
in British Pence
In ENGLAND.
From any Post-Office in England, to any Place not exceeding one Stage from such Office 2d.
From any Post-Office in England, to any Place above one, and not exceeding two Stages from such Office, and not passing through London 3d.
From any Post-Office in England, to any Place above two Stages, and not exceeding 80 Miles, and not passing through London 4d.
From any Post-Office in England, to any Place above 80, and not exceeding 150 Miles, and not passing through London 5d.
From any Post-Office in England, to any Place above 150 Miles, not passing through London 6d.
SCOTLAND.
Between London and Edinburgh, Dumfries, or Cockburnspeth 7d.
From any Post-Office in Scotland, to any Place not exceeding one Stage from such Office 2d.
From any Post-Office in Scotland, to any Place in the same Kingdom above one Stage, and not exceeding 50 Miles, and not passing through Edinburgh 3d.
From any Post-Office in Scotland, to any Place in the same Kingdom above 50, and not exceeding 80 Miles, and not passing through Edinburgh 4d.
From any Post-Office in Scotland, to any Place in the same Kingdom above 80, and not exceeding 150 Miles, and not passing through Edinburgh 5d.
From any Post-Office in Scotland, to any Place above 150 Miles, and not passing through Edinburgh 6d.
Between Port Patrick in Scotland, and Donaghadee in Ireland, by Packet-Boats, over and above all other Rates 2d.
Letters to and from any Part of England and any Part of Scotland, not passing through London, Edinburgh, Dumfries or Cockburnspeth, are not chargeable, if Single, higher than 7d.
Letters to and from Glasgow, or the intermediate Places by Carlisle, are not to pay an higher Rate of Postage, than if sent through Edinburgh.
IRELAND.
Between London and Dublin, by Way of Holyhead 6d.
Between London and Donaghadee, by Way of Carlisle and Port Patrick 12d.
ISLE OF MAN.
Between Great Britain, and the Isle of Man, by Packet-Boats, over and above all other Rates 2d.
PENNY-POST.
For the Port of every Letter or Packet, passing or re passing within the Cities of London or Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and their Suburbs, (which Letter or Packet is not to exceed the Weight of 4 Ounces, unless coming from or passing to the General-Post) One Penny upon putting in the same, as also a Penny upon the Delivery of such as are directed to any Place beyond the said Cities, Borough, or Suburbs, within the District of the Penny-Post Delivery.
Postage of a Single Letter
in British Pence
SHIP LETTERS.
For the Port of every Letter or Packet of Letters in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions directed to, or coming from, on board of any Ship, over and above the Rates before-mentioned 1d.
For every Letter or Packet coming from on Ship-board for the Town where landed, or the Delivery thereof, One Penny, with the Penny paid to the Master, Mariner, or Passenger bringing the same, being for every such Letter or Packet 2d.
His Majesty's WEST-INDIA Islands, and NORTH-AMERICA.
For Letters conveyed by Packet-Boats between London and any Port in His Majesty's West-India Islands, or North America 12d.
For Letters conveyed by Packet-Boats from any Port in the West-India Islands, or His Majesty's Dominions in North America, to any other Port thereof 4d.
For the Inland Conveyance of Letters in the said Dominions between any Office and any Place, not exceeding 60 English Miles 4d.
For any Distance above 60 English Miles, and not exceeding 100 Miles 6d.
For any Distance above 100, and not exceeding 200 English Miles 8d.
And so in Proportion, the Postage increasing Two Pence a Single Letter for any Distance above every 100 Miles.
FOREIGN LETTERS.
Letters from London to any Part of Holland, France, or Flanders, pay no Foreign Postage.
From any Part of Holland, France, or Flanders, to London 10d.
Between London and any Part of Spain or Portugal through France, or by Lisbon 18d.
Between London and any Part of Italy, Sicily, Turkey and Switzerland, through France 15d.
Between London and any Part of Italy, Sicily, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and all Parts of the North, through Holland and Flanders 12d.

Letters and Packets from any Part of Great Britain or Ireland, for any of the Places under the Title, FOREIGN LETTERS, before mentioned, and for North America, are, besides, the said Foreign Rates and Packet Postage to North America, to pay at the Office where they are put in, the full Port to London, without which they cannot be forwarded; therefore, All Persons are to take particular Notice thereof to prevent the Necessity of their Letters being opened and returned for the Postage.

All Merchants Accounts not exceeding one Sheet of Paper, and all Bills of Exchange, Invoices, and Bills of Lading, to or from any of the Foreign Parts or Places beforementioned, and the Covers of Letters to or from Turkey, not exceeding one Quarter of a Sheet of Paper, are allowed to pass without Payment of the Foreign Postage, but are to pay the full Inland Port to and from London.

All Double, Treble, and other Letters and Packets whatever (except by the Penny-Post) pay in proportion to the respective Rates of Single Letters before specified; but no Letter or Packet to and from Places within the Kingdom of Great-Britain, together with the Contents thereof, shall be charged more than as a Treble Letter, unless the same shall weigh an Ounce, when it is to be rated as Four Single Letters, and so in proportion for every Quarter of an Ounce above that Weight, reckoning each Quarter as a Single Letter.

Letters to all Parts of Europe are dispatched from London every Tuesday and Friday; and to Portugal by the Packet Boats to Lisbon every Wednesday: Also

Letters to the Leeward Islands are dispatched from London the First and Third Wednesday in every Month; to Jamaica, and all Parts of North America on the First Wednesday in every Month only.