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Eastwards bounded rates from
Switzerland
Postage Rate
Switzerland - Iraq (surface mail):
(Date Format dd.mm.yyyy)
From |
To |
Cover up to
20 grams |
Each
additional 20 grams |
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30.09.1924 |
40 Rappen |
20 Rappen |
01.10.1924 |
29.02.1948 |
30 Rappen |
20 Rappen |
Registration
fees:
(Date Format dd.mm.yyyy)
From |
To |
Fee |
01.01.1922
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30.06.1930 |
40 Rappen |
Surcharge for the use of Overland Mail
Date of Degree
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Surcharge
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Reference
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26.11.1923
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double rate
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Postal Notice 1924, Paragraph 6
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25.07.1925
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For letters
and postcards:
20 Rp. per 20 grams or part of
it For printed matters,
samples or business papers:
10 Rp. per 50m grams or part of it.
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Postal Notice No. issued 25.07.1925, Paragraph 92
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Auszug aus dem Post und Telegraphen -
Amtsblatt No. 51 vom 26. November 1923
Extract from “Post und Telegraphen - Amtsblatt No. 51 dated 26th November
1923, the Swiss Post
Office Journal
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136. Mail
traffic with Mesopotamia (Iraq)
According to a notification by the
English Postal Authority there exists between Haifa and Baghdad a link by cars,
which can be also used from now on for transmission of mail to Mesopotamia. The
departure from Haifa takes place each Thursday, in association with the weekly
English postal steamer sailing between Marseille and Port Said. The time of
transit Geneva to Baghdad is only 9 days, instead of 24 days on the route via
Bombay.
Considering the significant advantages
of this link, the postal exchange office Geneva 1 will, from the month of
December onwards, despatch each Friday a mail bag to Baghdad via Haifa. Only
ordinary and registered letters and postcards are permitted for transmission by
this route; they must bear in the upper left corner the clearly visible
inscription "Par Voie de Terre Haifa-Baghdad".
In view of the exceedingly high
compensation which has to be paid to the Mesopotamian postal authority for the
transmission of mail from Haifa to Baghdad, the fee for postal items which the
sender requests to be despatched by this route will be double (except the
registration and AR fees, which are not increased). Unfranked or insufficiently
franked items will be directed to their destination by the usual route via
Bombay.
Persons posting mail to Mesopotamia should
be alerted to this possibility of rapid transmission.
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An additional notice is known from the 'L'Union Postal', the monthly reports of the Universal
Postal Union for 1924. Further references to 'L'Union Postal' reports for all
countries will use the abbreviation L.P.
L'Union Postal 1924, page 184
Since December the 1st (1923) a
considerable improvement has been made in the letter post service with
Mesopotamia (Iraq) through the introduction of a motor car service between Haifa
and Baghdad. There is a departure from Haifa every Thursday in connection with
the steamers plying weekly between Marseille
and Port Said with Indian mails. A railway connects Port Said with Haifa. The conveyance from Geneva to Baghdad by
this new route takes only nine days instead of 24 days by the Indian route. Only
ordinary and registered letter and postcards are accepted and the postage is
double the ordinary rates.
This cover dated
16.01.1925 from Zug to Baghdad is franked with a total of
100 Rappen.
Rate calculation:
Postage rate:
(Postage 30 c., Registration 40 c. and Overland Mail surcharge
30
c).
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Only
2
covers from the
1st.
surcharge period reported
and the
earlier of the two known covers.
Auszug aus dem Post und Telegraphen -
Amtsblatt vom 25. Juli 1925
Extract from “Post und Telegraphen - Amtsblatt dated 25th
July 1925, the Swiss Post
Office Journal
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Post -Poste - Posta
92. Mail traffic with Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Southwest-Persia
From next August 1st, the Overland Mail Haifa-Bagdad can
be used for all kind of letters to Mesopotamia and Southwest-Persia. The
Surcharges from that time on are being
set as follows:
a:
For covers and Postal Cards 20 Rp. for each 20 Grams or part of it.
a:
For Printed Matters, Samples and Business Papers 10 Rp. for each 50 Grams.
or part of it.
Remaining text will be added shortly.
Paragraphs P.T.A. No. 136/1923 and 6/1924 are cancelled.
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Regsitered
cover from Berne (5 July 1926)
sent after the reduction of Overland Mail surcharge by the Swiss Post.
Total postage rate
90
Rappen.
Rate calculation:
Postage rate:
(Postage 30 c., Registration 40 c. and Overland Mail surcharge 20 c).
Only
2
covers from the 2nd surcharge period reported.
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