SHOW MENUForeign and Colonial Post Warrants 1892-1906
These Warrants mark the transition from "Treasury Warrants" to the more general description of Statutory Rules and Orders, and are mostly in the form of scanned digitised copies (with OCR'd text) extracted from volumes of these. A few are available as transcripts instead, where digitised copies were not available.
The text in the "Description" column is intended as a general summary of what the Warrant is about, in the manner of the "explanatory notes" officially added to later Warrants.
| Date | Warrant | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1892 (1 Jul) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Warrant 1892 (scan) |
This Warrant laid down the general rates and regulations for the Foreign and Colonial Post. |
| 1893 (1 Aug) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Warrant 1892 Amendment Warrant (No. 1) (scan) |
Addition of fictitious postage stamps and reused stamps to list of prohibitions. |
| 1895 (1 Jun) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment Warrant 1895 (scan) |
Renamed to the Foreign and Colonial Post (Amendment No. 2) Warrant, 1895 in the following Warrant Charge for return of undeliverable halfpenny printed packets, and £2 payment for loss of a registered packet. |
| 1898 (25 Dec) |
Foreign and Colonial Post (Amendment No. 3) Warrant 1898 (scan) |
Introduction of Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1899 (1 Jan) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Warrant 1898 (scan) |
This Warrant laid down the general rates and regulations for the Foreign and Colonial Post. |
| 1899 (1 Feb) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 1) Warrant 1899 (scan) |
Addition of Zanzibar to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1899 (1 Apr) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 2) Warrant 1899 (scan) |
Addition of Malta to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1899 (24 May) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 3) Warrant 1899 (scan) |
Addition of British North Borneo, Jamaica, Labuan, and Mauritius to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1899 (1 Sep) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant 1899 (scan) |
Addition of the Cape Colony to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1900 (1 Jun) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 5) Warrant 1900 (transcript) |
Letters from the British post offices in the Ottoman Empire to be charged at 40 paras instead of 2½d per ½oz. |
| 1900 (1 Dec) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 6) Warrant 1900 (transcript) |
Addition of the Districts of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1901 (1 Jan) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 7) Warrant 1900 (transcript) |
Addition of New Zealand to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1902 (1 May) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 8) Warrant 1902 (scan) |
Addition of the British Postal Agencies in China to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1905 (1 Jan) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 9) Warrant 1904 (scan) |
Cut-outs allowed for payment of postage. |
| 1905 (1 Apr) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 10) Warrant 1905 (scan) |
Addition of Australia to the Imperial Penny Post rate. (Not to apply to Paquebot letters from British ships in Australian ports.) Incoming short-paid letters from Australia to be charged double the deficiency. |
| 1905 (1 Dec) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 11) Warrant 1905 (scan) |
Writing on the address side of postcards permitted if to or from a country whose regulations allowed it. |
| 1905 (15 Dec) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 12) Warrant 1905 (scan) |
Addition of Egypt and Sudan to the Imperial Penny Post rate. |
| 1906 (2 Apr) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 13) Warrant 1906 (scan) |
Addition of Bechuanaland Protectorate and Rhodesia to the Imperial Penny Post rate. Incoming short-paid letters from Bechuanaland Protectorate or Rhodesia to be charged double the deficiency (max. 5d per ½oz). |
| 1906 (1 Nov) |
Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 14) Warrant 1906 (scan) |
New conditions for postcards:
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