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WEST INDIES MARITIME MAIL
SHIP LETTERS
An envelope franked with 100 and 200 reis adhesives from Brazil addressed to Costa Rica via New
York. The cover was posted in Rio de Janeiro in November 1900. As there is no back stamp it probably did
not go via New York.If it had it would have gone across the Continent to California and then down the west
coast. Instead it was landed in Bridgetown on 17th December when it was struck with a Ship Letter mark
(D3) and then taken to Colon arriving on the 31st. There is no arrival back stamp in San Jose.
A postcard from Footscray in Australia franked with a 1 'Ad adhesive from Victoria cancelled on
10lh March 1903, overpaying the U.P.U. rate of Id. It went through the Foreign Branch in New York on
19th April and arrived in Bridgetown on the 30th. Here it was struck with a Ship Letter maik (D3) before
arriving in St Joseph the same day, a transit of 51 days.
