Overland Mail Baghdad-Haifa Pages
Postal Rates and Overland Mail Surcharges
Eastwards bounded rates from Canada
Postage Rate
Canada - Iraq
(Standard UPU Foreign Rate, surface mail)
(Date
Format dd.mm.yyyy)
| From | Till | Letter up to 1 oz. | Each additional 1 oz. |
| 1 October 1921 | 31 September 1925 | 10 Cents | 5 Cents |
| 1 October 1925 | 30 June 1930 | 8 cents | 4 cents |
| 1 July 1930 | 31 March 1954 | 5 cents | 3 cents |
Surcharge for the use of
Overland Mail
Reference: the "Monthly supplements to the Canada Postal Guide"
|
Date of Postal Guide |
Surcharge |
Weight |
From: |
Till: |
Postal Article |
| 1925 |
6 cents |
each ounce |
1924 | 1929 | All classes, except parcels |
| 1929 | surcharge withdrawn | ||||
Extracts from "Monthly Supplements to the Canadian Postal Guide
Page 172, 1922-24 (Download, PDF Format, 58 KB)
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(17) Postage on Letters
for Iraq. - The prepaid rate of postage on letters for
Iraq (Mesopotamia) will be, in future, the international
rate of 10 cents for the first ounce and 5 cents for each
succeeding ounce. Postmasters will please amend the entry in the second column opposite Mesopotamia on page 92 of the 1922 Postal Guide accordingly.
Page 228, 1925-26 (Download, PDF Format, 122 KB) (8) Motor Service from Haifa to Baghdad.— Postmasters are informed that a fortnightly Motor Service for all classes of mail, except parcels, from Haifa, Palestine, to Baghdad, Iraq: is now in operation. The requirements for this mail are:
1. "By Overland Mail, Haifa-Baghdad" to be
prominently written on the left hand side of the
address side of the envelope or wrapper.
2. The usual postage to be affixed on the address
side of the envelope or wrapper.
3. Additional postage stamps to the value of six
cents per ounce to be placed on the address side
in payment of special charge for transmission by
the Motor Service.
Postmasters will please give out the above as a
news item to the local newspapers. Postmasters
should forward such mail to the Montreal Post
Office under special delivery wrapper, this merely
in order that when it reaches that office, it may
receive special handling.
Page 237, 1925-26 (Download, PDF Format, 146 KB)
MOTOR SERVICE FROM HAIFA TO BAGHDAD.
A fortnightly Motor Service for all classes of mail, except parcels, from Haifa, Palestine» to Baghdad, Iraq, is in operation. The requirements for this mail are:—
1. "By Overland Mail, Haifa-Baghdad" to be prominently
written on the left hand side of the address side of the
envelope or wrapper.
2. The usual postage to be affixed on the address side of
the envelope or wrapper.
3. Additional postage stamps to the value of six cents
per ounce to be placed on the address side in payment of the
special charge for transmission by the Motor Service. Postmasters will please insert the above in column 3, opposite Iraq, page 99, and opposite Palestine, page 108, in the 1926 Postal Guide.
Page 228, 1929-30 (Download, PDF Format, 113 KB)
(17) Desert Motor Route to Iraq and Persia.—
Postmasters
are advised that the special surcharge on correspondence
intended to be sent by the Desert Motor Route to Iraq and Persia
has been withdrawn. The regular International rate of 8 cents
for the first ounce and 4 cents for each subsequent ounce or
fraction for letters, 4 cents each for postcards and 2 cents per
two ounces or fraction for printed matter is to be collected.
Postmasters will please amend the Observations on pages
110, 131 and 156 under headings Egypt, Iraq and Persia in
the 1929 Postal Guide accordingly.
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I was able to find 2 covers from Canada to Iraq from the time when the surcharges have been withdrawn.
Cover dated 1929, Front and reverse
Details will follow shortly!