SHOW MENU

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrants 1906-21

This section consists of the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant 1906 and the rather excessive number of amending Warrants to it issued over the next decade and a half. Almost all of these were revisions of the rates to specific countries. On the issue of a new Principal Warrant in 1921 a maximum possible rate was set, with the Post Office allowed to select any rate up to that, the exact rates often printed in the London Gazette.

The Warrants are listed below in numerical order, but as the dates on which they took effect were not always in the same sequence as the dates on which they were issued, the former are not in strict chronological order – although this does not affect the rates to any particular destination.

Date Instrument Explanatory Note
1906
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant 1906 (scan)

This version is "backdated" from the one printed in the volume of Statutory Rules & Orders at the end of 1906, in order to remove the modifications of the first amending warrant

This Warrant laid down the general rates and regulations for the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post from the UK and the British Postal Agencies in the Ottoman Empire.

1907
(1 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 1) Warrant 1906 (transcript)

Introduction of parcel rates to Sweden via Belgium or Netherlands and Germany.

1907
(19 Feb)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 2) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised rates to Rhodesia and Bechuanaland Protectorate.

1907
(26 Mar)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 3) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised rates to Rhodesia in the previous Warrant repealed.

1907
(1 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised rates to Spain and the Balearic Islands.

1907
(25 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 5) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised rates for parcels from the British Postal Agencies in the Ottoman Empire.

1907
(15 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 6) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

1907
(1 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 7) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Increase of maximum compensation for loss or damage from £120 to £400, and correspondingly extended schedule of insurance fees.

1907
(1 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 8) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Peru by sea direct (instead of via France or Germany).

1907
(25 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 9) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised rates to New Zealand (including Cook and Hervey Islands).

1907
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 10) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised rates to Japan (via Canada or via France and Suez).

1907
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 11) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Pitcairn Island and the French Settlements of Oceania.

1907
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 12) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised rates to Portugal (via France and Spain).

1908
(14 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 13) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to the British East Africa Protectorate.

1908
(1 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 14) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates for parcels from the British Postal Agencies in the Ottoman Empire.

1908
(1 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 15) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to Smyrna.

1908
(1 Mar)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 16) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to Portuguese East Africa.

1908
(13 Mar)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 17) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to Mauritius.

1908
(17 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 18) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to the Kiautschou Protectorate (German leased territory in China).

1908
(29 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 19) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to the Dutch East Indies.

1908
(1 Jun)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 20) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to Egypt.

1908
(1 Aug)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 21) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to Turkey.

1908
(1 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 22) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to the USA.

1908
(1 Sep)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 23) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to German Samoa (Apia).

1908
(14 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 24) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to China (Northern Manchuria), Japan, Persia, and Russia (including Finland).

1908
(1 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 25) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates from the British Postal Agencies in Salonica and Constantinople.

1908
(2 Nov)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 26) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rates to Argentina.

1908
(15 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 27) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates from the British Postal Agencies in Morocco.

1909
(20 Aug)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 28) Warrant 1909 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Mauritania.

1909
(24 Aug)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 29) Warrant 1909 (scan)

Revised rates to Zanzibar.

1909
(18 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 30) Warrant 1909 (scan)

Revised rates to Rhodesia.

1909
(1 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 31) Warrant 1909 (scan)

Revised rates from the British Postal Agency in Constantinople to Malta.

1909
(17 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 32) Warrant 1909 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Benadir (Italian Somaliland).

1910
(1 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 33) Warrant 1909 (scan)

Revised rates to Canada.

1910
(19 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 34) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Abyssinia.

1910
(1 Jun)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 35) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Beyrout via France, Italy, and Egypt.

1910
(12 Aug)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 36) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates from British Postal Agencies in Morocco ports to places outside Morocco via Gibraltar.

1910
(4 Nov)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 37) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Revised rates from the British Postal Agency in Beyrout, and introduction of parcel rates to Tonga.

1910
(29 Nov)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 38) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Revised rates to Siam.

1911
(26 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 39) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Revised rates to China.

1911
(28 Feb)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 40) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Revised rates to the Orange Free State and Transvaal Provinces of the Union of South Africa.

1911
(24 Feb)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 41) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Katanga (Congo).

1911
(28 Feb)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 42) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Revised rates to Abyssinia.

1911
(7 Nov)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 43) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Revised rates to Nyasaland Protectorate (previously referred to as the British Central Africa Protectorate).

1911
(1 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 44) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Revised rates to the USA.

1912
(1 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 45) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Revised rates to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, and introduction of parcel rates to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate.

1912
(1 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 46) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Ecuador by sea direct or via Colon and Panama (not via France).

1912
(1 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 47) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Peru (Department of Loreto) via the Amazon (not via France or Germany).

1912
(1 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 48) Warrant 1912 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Fiji via Canada (not New South Wales).

1912
(1 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 49) Warrant 1912 (scan)

Revised rates to Egypt.

1912
(7 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 50) Warrant 1912 (scan)

Revised rates to the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

1912
(1 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 51) Warrant 1912 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Chile and Bolivia via Buenos Aires and the Andes (not by sea direct).

1912
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 52) Warrant 1912 (scan)

Revised rates to a large number of (non-Empire) countries, and from the British Postal Agencies in the Ottoman Empire.

1913
(1 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 53) Warrant 1912 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Peru (any department except Loreto) via the Isthmus of Panama (not any other route), and to Venezuela by sea direct (not via France, Germany or Netherlands).

1913
(1 Feb)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 54) Warrant 1913 (scan)

Revised rates to French Indo-China and Madagascar.

1913
(25 Mar)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 55) Warrant 1913 (scan)

Revised rates to Libya (previously referred to as Tripoli (Africa)).

1913
(2 Jun)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 56) Warrant 1913 (scan)

Revised rates to Bolivia, and introduction of parcel rates to Chile via Buenos Aires and the Andes (not by sea direct).

1913
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 57) Warrant 1913 (scan)

Revised rates to China.

1913
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 58) Warrant 1913 (scan)

Revised rates (via New South Wales) to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and the New Hebrides, and introduction of parcel rates to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate via New South Wales.

1913
(2 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 59) Warrant 1913 (scan)

Revised rates to Bukoba, Muansa and Schirati (German East Africa).

1914
(20 Jan?)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 60) Warrant 1914

not currently available

Revised rates to Belgian Congo (Katanga Province).

1914
(1 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 61) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela, via Trinidad and the River Orinoco.

1914
(1 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 62) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Revised rates to Australia (including Papua), British East Africa and Uganda, British North Borneo, British Somaliland, Brunei, Ceylon, Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, India (including Aden, Burma, French India, and the places with Indian Agencies), Malay States, Mauritius, Sarawak, Straits Settlements and Zanzibar.

1914
(6 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 63) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Revised rates to German East Africa via British East Africa.

1914
(1 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 64) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Revised rates to Territory of Papua (British New Guinea).

1914
(1 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 65) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Revised rates to France, Corsica and Algeria.

1914
(1 Aug)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 66) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to the Dutch West Indies by sea direct (instead of via the Netherlands).

1914
(1 Nov)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 67) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Revised rates to Nigeria (colony (formerly Lagos) and protectorate).

1915
(1 Feb)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 68) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Rhodesia (Northern and Southern) and Belgian Congo (Katanga Province) via Cape Town (instead of other routes).

1915
(16 Mar)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 69) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Revised rates to Persia, Russia, Belgian Congo, China (Russian Agencies in Northern Manchuria), Cuba, Seychelles, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia.

1915
(1 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 70) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates (via New Zealand) to the French Settlements of Oceania and Pitcairn Island.

1915
(1 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 71) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates (by sea direct) to the Canary Islands.

1915
(1 Sep)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 72) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Fanning Island via Canada.

1915
(16 Aug)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 73) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Revised rates to Russia and Romania.

1915
(12 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 74) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Revised rates to Romania.

1915
(1 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 75) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Revised rates to the Danish West Indies, Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

1915
(21 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 76) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Revised rates to Russia.

1916
(16 Feb)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 77) Warrant 1916 (scan)

Revised rates to Mexico.

1916
(1 Mar)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 78) Warrant 1916 (scan)

Revised rates to Costa Rica.

1916
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 79) Warrant 1916 (scan)

Revised rates to (El) Salvador.

1916
(1 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 80) Warrant 1916 (scan)

Revised rates to Colombia.

1917
(1 Mar)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 81) Warrant 1917 (scan)

Revised rates to Siam.

1917
(5 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 82) Warrant 1917 (scan)

Revised rates to the Gold Coast Colony.

1917
(16 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 83) Warrant 1917 (scan)

Revised rates to the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

1918
(21 May)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 84) Warrant 1918 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Bolivia via Buenos Aires and Quiaca.

1918
(28 Aug)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 85) Warrant 1918 (scan)

Revised rates to Costa Rica.

1918
(2 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 86) Warrant 1918 (scan)

Introduction of 2d charge for fulfilment of customs formalities on parcels liable to customs duties.

1919
(1 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 87) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Ceuta and Melilla.

1919
(1 Apr)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 88) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Revised rates to Mexico.

1919
(14 Jun)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 89) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Revised rates to Finland.

1919
(9 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 90) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Revised rates to Greece.

1919
(22 Jul)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 91) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Revised rates to Republic of Honduras.

1919
(15 Sep)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 92) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates from the British Postal Agency in Tangier to Egypt (via Gibraltar).

1919
(17 Sep)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 93) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Revised rates to Romania.

1919
(21 Oct)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 94) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Revised rates to Venezuela.

1919
(9 Dec)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 95) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Revised rates to Canada, Fanning Island, Fiji Islands, Newfoundland, and St. Pierre and Miquelon.

1920
(21 Sep)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 96) Warrant 1920 (scan)

Revised rates to and from British Postal Agencies at Constantinople and Smyrna.

1920
(1 Jun)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 97) Warrant 1920 (scan)

Introduction of parcel rates to Czechoslovakia.

1920
(1 Sep)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 98) Warrant 1920 (scan)

Revised rates to Bulgaria.

1921
(17 Jan)

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 99) Warrant 1920 (scan)

Revised rules for posting and insurance of parcels containing jewellery.