Postal Rates and Overland Mail Surcharges

Eastwards bounded rates from United Kingdom

Postage Rate UK - Iraq (Empire Rate, surface mail)
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 Postage Rate UK - Iraq (Foreign Rate - surface mail)

 Registration Fee

Surcharge for the use of Overland Mail

Press Notice No. P.N. 256

The Press Notice announcing the acceptance of mail for conveyance by the overland mail route was as follows:

The Postmaster General announces that a weekly mail service by motor transport has been established between Haifa (Palestine) and Baghdad. This service will connect with the Indian Mail which leaves London every Thursday via Marseilles and Port Said, and is now available for the conveyance of all classes of postal packets, except parcels, for Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Mails leaving London on Thursday night will reach Port Said on Wednesday, Haifa on Thursday and Baghdad on Saturday night. The transit from London to Baghdad will thus be about 9 days as compared with 23 days by the ordinary route via Bombay. This weekly service is in addition to the fortnightly Air Mail Service.

Packets intended for conveyance by the new route must be subscribed by the senders “By overland mail Haifa-Baghdad” and prepaid with a special fee of 3d. per ounce in addition to the ordinary postage. There is no insurance system; but registration is admitted under the ordinary conditions.

The fist mail by the new route will be despatched on Thursday next, November 22.

GENERAL POST OFFICE , 19th November 1923