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Central and South America Venezuela and Colombia
British packet rates to Venezuela were one shilling via Southampton to Yz oz weight by 1862. Colombia rates for packets
were also 1/- into Caribbean and Pacifie coastal ports. Both had reduced to 4d by 1881 as member countries of the UPU.
Double Rate Letter to Venezuela
2/- paid
Paid Packet Letter sent
from Glasgow via
Southampton
10 April recei ved.
UPU Rate Letter to Colombia
4d paid
To Santa Martha, Colombia, 22 December, 1883-34 days
UPU rated letter from Dundee, Scotland per Yucatan from Liverpool and received via Caribbean
coast port at Santa Marta. Commercial handstamp, James Rattray & Co., Dundee. 25 January, 1884.
Letter above: James Rattray & Company. watchmaker and jeweler, was founded in 1850 in Dundee, Scotland.
