Postage Rates of Portuguese India
Prior to 1892, postal cards, which first appeared in India in May 1883, were rated at 3 reis or 1/4 tanga within the colony or to British India, and 1 tanga to Portugal & Colonies and Europe.
. . . The Provincial Portaria of March 6, 1885 fixed the rupia, worth 192 reis of Goa, at 400 Portuguese reis, thus 1 tanga equaled 25 reis. This was the postage paid in India to send a postal card to Portugal, while 10 reis carried a card from the Kingdom to India.
. . . It might be presumed that postal cards of 4½ reis, made (or altered) in India, might have circulated. . . . Up to now we’ve neither seen any nor found any reference to their existence.
. . . published in B[oletim]. O[fficial]. №84 of July 30, 1892 . . . new tables of postage applicable to mail dispatched from Portuguese India.
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Ministry of Public Works, Commerce and Industry
Directorate of Post, Telegraph & Lighthouses
International & Overseas Postal Service
Postage of Mail Sent from Portuguese India to Spain and Spanish Colonies.
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Reis |
Equivalent in convention money |
Ordinary Letters, each 15 grams |
50 |
0:02:00 |
Postal Cards, single, each |
10 |
0:00:04½ |
Reply Paid Postal Cards, each |
20 |
0:00:09 |
Newspapers, Printed Matter and Samples Manuscripts or Commercial Papers: up to 500 grams |
50 |
0:02:00 |
each 50 grams over 500 |
5 |
0:00:03 |
Registered Mail: Registry Premium for each letter, postal card or bundle, in addition to the respective postage |
50 |
0:02:00 |
Advice of Receipt, each |
25 |
0:01:00 |
Postage to collect on mail received Unfranked letters, each 15 grams |
100 |
0:04:00 |
Any other insufficiently franked mail |
postage equal to double the value of missing stamps. |
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Postage of Mail Sent from Portuguese India to All Universal Postal Union Countries.
|
Reis |
Equivalent in convention money |
Ordinary Letters, each 15 grams |
100 |
0:04:00 |
Postal Cards, single, each |
30 |
0:01:03 |
Reply Paid Postal Cards, each |
60 |
0:02:04½ |
Newspapers and other Printed Matter, each 50 grams |
20 |
0:00:09 |
Samples: up to 100 grams |
40 |
0:01:07½ |
each 50 grams over 100 |
20 |
0:00:09 |
Manuscripts: up to 250 grams |
100 |
0:04:00 |
each 50 grams over 250 |
20 |
0:00:09 |
Registered Mail: Registry Premium for each letter, postal card or bundle, in addition to the respective postage |
50 |
0:02:00 |
Advice of Receipt, each |
50 |
0:01:00 |
Postage to collect on mail received Unfranked letters, each 15 grams |
200 |
0:08:00 |
Any other insufficiently franked mail |
postage equal to double the value of missing stamps. |
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Postage of Mail from Portuguese India to Countries Outside the Universal Postal Union:
1. Abyssinia; 2. Tonga (or Friendly Isles) <R>; 3. Arabia (except Aden, Muscat, and Provinces of Hejaz & Yemen <R>; 4. Ascension; 5. Bechuanaland <R>; 6. Cape of Good Hope <R>; 7. China and Korea (except European Post Offices designated in Group 4 of Table I) <R> 8. West Coast of Africa (Niger, Oil Rivers, Dahomey & Ashanti) - excepting Universal Postal Union territories; 9. Madagascar - except Majunga, Santa Maria & Tamatave; 10. Morocco - except Spanish Post Offices viz. Table 1; 11. Natal <R>; 12. Norfolk Island; 13. Orange Free State <R>; 14. Santa Helena <R>; 15. Sarawak <R>; 16. Transvaal <R>; 17. Tripolitania - except the city of Tripoli; 18. Zanzibar (Sultanate) - except of the city of Zanzibar); 19. Colonies or countries not otherwise specified.
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Reis |
Equivalent in convention money |
Ordinary Letters, each 15 grams |
150 |
0:06:00 |
Newspapers and other Printed Matter, each 50 grams |
20 |
0:00:09 |
Samples: up to 100 grams |
40 |
0:01:07½ |
each 50 grams over 100 |
20 |
0:00:09 |
Manuscripts: up to 250 grams |
150 |
0:06:00 |
each 50 grams over 250 |
30 |
0:01:03 |
Registered Mail to Countries denoted by the letter <R>: Registry Premium for each letter, postal card or bundle, in addition to the respective postage: |
50 |
0:02:00 |
Postage to collect on mail received Unfranked letters, each 15 grams |
300 |
0:08:00 |
Any other insufficiently franked mail |
postage equal to double the value of missing stamps. |
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The franking of mail is obligatory to countries designated by numbers 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15 and 19. |
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