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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Unpaid letter rate to the United Kingdom

September 1889

Mliin feature

The fact that an unpaid letter reached its destination in Liverpool. The
letter was sent at the rate of 4d for Y2 oz [unpaid. This 4d rate was in
force between the 1st October 1888 and the31st December 1890.

All letters in or out of Cape Colony had to be fully prepaid and if unpaid or underpaid the letters were
usually returned to the writer for the postage plus an extra half postage fee. There is no evidence that this
procedure was followed and no evidence of a 2d stamp falling off. The rate to the UK was 6d for ~ oz and
the 7d in manuscript is 4d deficient postage plus a half share of the fine of 6d [CC claim on the UK]. The
1 Od is the 7d plus the UK 3d share of the fme. The letter passed through the Foreign Branch in London
where the IOd was applied but there are no other London marks at all. The only cds on the back are those of
Cape Town and Liverpool. The Kimberley cds is where the stamp[s] should have been.