Category: Post Office

Departments of Posts and Telegraphs

Postal Notice No.36 of 1912

Details

• Date: 7 August 1912
• Notice: 36/1912

Department of Postmaster General

Postal Notice No.55 of 1912

Details

• Date: 18 December 1912
• Notice: 55/1912

Department of Postmaster General

Postal Notice No.57 of 1912

Details

• Date: 20 December 1912
• Notice: 57/1912

Administrators Office

Government Notice No.8 of 1900

Regulations Respecting Mail Service.

 

Whereas under the provisions of the North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1899, the Administrator has power to make regulations for peace, order and good government, IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Administrator has, in pursuance of the above powers, made the following regulations:-

 

1. It is unlawful for any person, unless employed in the Postal Service of North-Eastern Rhodesia, to send or convey any letter from any place within to any place without North-Eastern Rhodesia, or from place to place within North-Eastern Rhodesia except the following:

 

(i) Letters to or from any place not being on the route along which the post travels.

 

(ii) Letters concerning goods or other property to be delivered, such letters being sent with, or for the purpose of being delivered at the same time as the property they concern, without hire or reward for delivering the same.

 

(iii) Letters sent by any private friend in his way, journey or travel, so as that such letters shall be delivered by such friend to the party to whom they may be directed, or by any messenger sent on purpose, concerning the private affairs of the sender or receiver of such letters. But no person shall make a collection of such letters hereby excepted, for the purpose of sending them in the manner authorised.

 

2. The following persons are expressly forbidden to carry a letter, or to receive or collect, or deliver any letter within North-Eastern Rhodesia, although they shall not receive hire or reward for the same, that is to say:-

 

(a) Common carriers of passengers or good, their drivers, servants or agents, except a letter concerning goods in their custody for carriage.

 

(b) Owners and masters of ships and their servants and agents, except letters solely concerning goods on board and to be delivered with such goods.

 

(c) Officers and servants employed in the Postal Service of North-Eastern Rhodesia, except letters received, conveyed, or delivered by them in course of post.

 

3. Every person sending, dispatching, carrying, collecting, receiving, or delivering any letter, book, newspaper, or parcel contrary to these Regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding £1 in respect of every letter, book, newspaper or postal parcel.

4. In these Regulations, “letter” includes “post card,” and “ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation.

5. These Regulations may be cited as “The Postal Regulations, 1900.”

 

Robert Codrington, Administrator

 

Approved: W. H. Manning, Lieut. Colonel, H.M. Acting Commissioner and

Consul-General 

Zomba B.C. Africa

Details

• Date: 11 December 1900
• Notice: 8/1900

Department of Postmaster General

Postal Notice No.8 of 1900

Reduction of Postage Rates

 

It is hereby notified for public information that on July 15, 1900, the Rates of Postage from Southern Rhodesia to all parts of South Africa, south of the Zambesi, will be reduce to the following scale:-

 

• Letters . 2d. per ½ oz.
• Post Cards . 1d.
• Newspapers, Printed Papers, Books and samples . ½d. per 2 ozs.
• Minimum charge for Sample Packets . 1d.
• Minimum charge for Commercial Papers . 2d.

The Parcel Rate remains for present unaltered.

 

The Rhodesian Internal Postage Rates remain at the Scale published in Government Gazette Notice No.98 of 1899.

 

G. H. Eyre, Postmaster-General

 

General Post Office, Salisbury

Details

• Date: 6 July 1900
• Notice: 8/1900

Department of Postmaster General

Postal Notice No.2 of 1900

Entry of Rhodesia into the Universal Postal Union

It is hereby notified for public information that Rhodesia will enter the Universal Postal Union on April 1, 1900, from which date the undermentioned rates of postage will take effect:-

• For letters to any part of the World . 4d.per ½ oz. or fraction thereof.
• For Post Cards to any part of the World . 1d.
• For Reply Paid Post Cards . 2d.
• For Newspapers, Printed Papers, Books and samples . 1d. per 2 ozs. or fraction thereof.
• For Commercial Papers . 3d. per 2 ozs., 3½d. for 4 ozs., 4d. for 6 ozs., 4½d. for 8 ozs., 5d. for 10 ozs., and 1d. for every 2 ozs. or fraction thereof.
• Registration fee . 4d.
• Fee for the Acknowledgement of a Registered Article . 2½d.

The rates of postage to the Cape and other parts of South Africa are not for the present altered.

G. H. Eyre, Postmaster-General

General Post Office, Salisbury

Details

• Date: 21 March 1900
• Notice: 2/1900

Department of Postmaster General

Postal Notice No.99 of 1899

Reduction of Inland Parcels Tariff

It is hereby notified for general information that on and after November 1, 1899, the postage rate of parcels exchanged between places within Rhodesia will be reduced to 1s. per pound or fraction thereof.

G. H. Eyre, Postmaster-General

General Post Office, Salisbury

Details

• Date: 31 October 1899
• Notice: 99/1899

Department of Postmaster General

Postal Notice No.98 of 1899

Reduction of Tariff for Internal Letters and Telegrams

It is hereby notified for public information that on and after November 1, 1899, the postage charge on letters between the Post Offices of Southern Rhodesia will be 1d. per ounce.

From the same date the Internal Telegraph Tariff will be reduced to 2s. for twelve words, and 2d. for each additional word. Cypher telegrams will be charged 50 per cent. in excess of the above rates. Press telegrams will be charged one-quarter of the ordinary rate with a minimum charge of 2s.

A further notification will shortly be made with regards to the reductions in the postage tariff to places outside Rhodesia, negotiations in connection therewith having been suspended owing to the interruption of communication with the South.

G. H. Eyre, Postmaster-General

General Post Office, Salisbury

Details

• Date: 25 October 1899
• Notice: 98/1899

Department of Postmaster General

Postal Notice No.79 of 1898

It is hereby notified for public information that on and from the first of January, 1899, Reply Paid Post Cards will be available for circulation between Rhodesia and the undermentioned countries:-

• The Cape Colony,
• The United Kingdom,
• Germany,
• Austria,
• Bosnia,
• Denmark,
• The United States of America,
• Herzegovina,
• Greece,
• Hungary
• Italy,
• Holland,
• Russia,
• Sweden,
• Switzerland and
• All British Colonies and Possessions.

The rate of Postage will be as follows:-

• To the Cape Colony      …3d. each.
• To the United Kingdom …4d. each.
• To all other Countries   …5d. each.

NOTE: Rhodesian Reply Paid Post Cards bearing a one penny stamp on each half will be available for the above mentioned services, provided that one ½d. stamp be attached to each half of the card when sent to the Cape Colony, 1d. stamp to each half when sent to the United Kingdom, and 1½d. in stamps when sent to other Countries.

G. H. Eyre, Postmaster-General

General Post Office, Salisbury

Details

• Date: 29 December 1898
• Notice: 79/1898