Small Packet Rates 1991-2008

Introduction

On 7th January 1991 the previous three-zone division of world destinations outside Europe was reduced to two, and special European airmail rates were reintroduced.

The initial rates were the same as for the previous Zones A/B/C, with A and B combined to form Zone 1 and C renamed Zone 2.

Differential rates for stamped and franked airmail packets were first introduced on 2nd April 2007. There was however only one set of such rates before the two-zone division of world destinations outside Europe was scrapped in 2008 in favour of a combined "Rest of World" zone.

Several later rate sets in this period had steps that did not settle down into a standard price increment per extra weight step until a fairly high weight, hence the length of some of the lists below!