Letters - Foreign rates - 1875 - 1918

Date introduced

Weight steps

Rate per step

01-07-1875

each 15 g

10 kr

01-01-1883

each 20 g

10 kr

01-01-1900

each 15 g

25 f

01-10-1907

each 20 g

each additional 20 g

25 f

15 f

Note 1:  discretionary rate (= inland rate) from 1900 to foreign countries: Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia and Montenegro only to 30.09.1916

Note 2:   from 15-06-1918 letters in the convention countries had  to pay an additional 5 f as a war tax, 2 f for postal stationery cards

Note 3:  following the 1875 Bern Convention, these rate applied only to signatories of the convention. For those countries not members, individual rates applied.

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