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Originally published in Philippine Journal of Philately, Sept-Oct 1963

 

 

1963 LATEST AIRMAIL RATES OF THE PHILIPPINES

 

DOMESTIC AIRMAIL

The charge for domestic air mail shall be 30 centavos (including the ordinary postage) for every 20 grams or fraction thereof.  The limit of weight for such mail is 5 kilos.

FOREIGN AIRMAIL

The airmail charges, which include the ordinary postage, on mail matters for foreign countries, computed at every 15 grams or fraction thereof for letters and post cards, and for every 50 grams or fraction thereof for printed matters, commercial papers, samples of merchandise and small packets, are as follows:

 DIRECT SERVICE 

Australia

(including Cocos and Lore Howe Islands)

0.50

Malaya

0.35

Belgium

0.75

Netherlands (Holland)

0.75

Burma

0.35

Netherlands New Guinea

0.35

Denmark (w/Greenland)

0.75

Norway

0.75

France (w/Corsica)

0.70

Okinawa

0.30

Germany (W/Saar)

0.70

Pakistan

0.50

Great Britain and Northern Ireland

0.70

Spain (w/Balearic Island)

0.75

Guam

0.30

Sweden

0.75

Hawaii

0.60

Switzerland (w/Liechtenstein)

0.70

Hongkong

0.30

Taiwan

0.30

India (w/Goa, Daman and Diu)

0.40

Thailand

0.30

Indonesia

0.40

United States

0.70

Italy

0.70

Vietnam

0.30

Japan

0.35

Wake Island

0.40

 VIA AUSTRALIA 

Canton Island

0.65

New Hebrides

(with Banks and Torre Islands

0.60

Christmas Island

0.50

New Zealand

0.60

Cook Islands

0.75

Norfolk Island

0.50

Fiji Islands

0.65

Papua and New Guines

0.50

French Polynesia (Oceania)

0.75

Solomon Islands (with Shortland Island)

0.65

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

0.65

Samoa (with West Samoa)

0.65

Nauru

0.50

Tonga

0.65

New Caledonia and Dependencies

0.60

 

 

 VIA GREAT BRITAIN                                              

Azores

0.80

Canary Islands

0.80

Faroo Islands

0.80

Iceland

0.80

Ireland  (Eire)

0.70

 VIA HAWAII 

Midway

0.55

 VIA HONG KONG 

Amoy

0.30

Macao

0.30

Lebanon

0.70

VIA GUAM 

Caroline Islands (Kusate, Ponape, Truk, Ulithi, Yao and Palau)

0.30

Marianas Islands (Saipan and Tinian)

0.30

Marshall Islands (Kwajalein, Eniwetok and Majuro)

0.30

 VIA JAPAN 

Korea

0.40

 VIA PAKISTAN 

Afghanistan

0.55

 VIA VIETNAM 

Cambodia

0.30

Laos

0.30

 VIA SWITZERLAND 

Finland

0.75

Poland

0.75

Hungary

0.75

 VIA ITALY 

Albania

0.70

Morocco

0.75

Algeria

0.75

Mozambique

1.05

Angola

0.95

Niger, Republic of

0.90

Ascension

1.00

Nigeria, Fed. (British Cameroons)

0.85

Austria

0.70

Portugal

0.75

Beehuanaland

1.00

Portuguese Guinea

0.95

Byelorussia

0.75

Reunion

1.05

Bulgaria

0.75

Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Fed.)

1.00

Cameroon (French State)

0.95

Rumania

0.80

Congo, Rep. of the (Belgian Congo)

0.95

Russia (w/Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)

0.75

Congo, Rep. (French Congo)

0.95

Rwanda, Rep. of

0.90

Cyprus

0.75

San Marino, Rep. of

0.70

Czechoslovakia

0.70

Senegal

0.90

Dahomey

0.90

Seychelles

0.90

Gabon, Rep. of

0.95

Sierra Leone

0.90

Gambia

0.95

Southwest Africa

1.00

Ghana

 0.85

Spanish Guinea (w/ Fernando Po, Anneban Islands)

 1.00

Gibraltar

 0.75

Spanish West Africa (w/ Territory of Ifni and Spanish Sahara)

 0.90

Greece

0.75

St. Helena

1.00

Guinea

0.90

St. Thomas and Prince Islands

1.00

Israel

0.75

Sudan

0.85

Ivory Cost, Rep. of

0.90

Tanganyika

0.90

Kenya

0.90

Tchad

0.95

Liberia

0.90

Tunisia

0.70

Libya

0.75

Turkey

0.75

Luxemburg

0.70

Uganda

0.90

Madeira

0.75

Ukraine

0.75

Malagasy, Rep. of  (Madagascar)

1.00

Union of South Africa

1.00

Mali, Rep. of  (French Sudan)

0.90

Upper Volta

0.90

Malta

0.70

Vatican City

0.70

Mauritania, Islamic Rep. of

0.90

Yugoslavia

0.70

Mauritius and Dependencies

1.05

Zanzibar

0.95

Monaco

0.70

 

 

 VIA MALAYA 

Aden

0.65

North Borneo (w/Labuan) *

0.40

Brunei *

 

0.40

Persian Gulf Ports:  Dubai (w/ Sharjah), Kuwait, Muscat, and, Qatar (w/ Doha and Uma Said)

 

 0.65

Cape Verde Islands

0.90

Portuguese Timor

0.50

Ceylon

0.50

Sarawak *

0.40

Eritrea

0.65

Saudi Arabia

0.65

Ethiopia

0.70

Somali, Republic of

0.65

Iran

0.65

Togoland (Autonomous Republic)

1.10

Iraq

0.65

United Arab Republic (Egypt)

0.65

Jordan

0.65

United Arab Republic (Syria)

0.65

Nepal

0.50

Yemen

0.65

 * Note:  Direct Service on Mondays

 VIA UNITED STATES 

Antigua (w/Barbuda)

0.80

Honduras Republic

0.70

Argentina

0.95

Jamaica

0.70

Bahamas

 

0.70

Leeward Islands (Anguilla, Dominica, Nevis and St. Christopher

0.80

 

Barbados

0.80

Martinique

0.80

Bermuda

0.75

Mexico

0.75

Bolivia

0.85

Montserrat

0.80

Brazil

0.95

Netherlands West Indies (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius, and St. Martin)

0.80

British Guiana

0.85

Nicaragua

0.75

British Honduras

0.75

Panama Republic

0.75

Canada (w/Newfoundland)

0.75

Panama Canal Zone

0.75

Cayman

0.75

Paraguay

0.95

Chile

0.95

Peru

0.85

Colombia

0.75

Puerto Rico

0.70

Costa Rica

0.75

St. Pierre & Miquelon

0.75

Cuba

0.70

Surinam

0.85

Dominican Republic

0.75

Trinidad and Tobago

0.80

Ecuador

0.85

Turks & Caicos Islands

0.75

El Salvador

0.75

Uruguay

0.95

Falkland Islands

0.95

Venezuela

0.80

French Guiana

0.85

Virgin Islands (British)

0.75

Guadalupe

0.80

Virgin Islands (U.S.)

0.70

Guatemala

0.75

Windward Islands (Grenada, Grenadines, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent

0.80

Haiti

0.75

 

 

The 50 centavo air-letter sheets may be accepted for transmission to countries for which the airmail charge (including ordinary postage) for each 15 grams or fraction thereof is P0.70 or less.

Single postcards and postal cards for transmission by air to countries for which the airmail fee (including ordinary postage) for an ordinary letter weighing not more that 15 grams is P0.70 or less shall be charged at the reduced rate of P0.50 each.  However, when the airmail fee for the ordinary letter is  lower that P0.50, the lower rate shall be applied to the cards.

Single postcards and postal cards for transmission by air to countries for which the air mail fee for an ordinary letter weighing not more than 15 grams is more than P0.70 shall be charged at the regular rates applicable to letters sent by air to these countries.

 

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