/revised 11 Aug 2005
Postage due items from USA to Sweden
1 May 1967 - 30 June 1971
US foreign surface letter rate 13 c
Swedish foreign surface letter rate 70 öre
US handstamp shows amount to pay in US cents (normally double deficiency) and US surface letter rate.
In Sweden the indicated fraction multiplied by 70 and rounded up to nearest 5 öre was normally paid by affixing stamps on the item.


Customs fees: 70 öre (1 april 1959 to 28 Feb 1969, for parcel mail the fee was increased already 1 Jul 1964). The postal rate books list two different customs fees. One lower rate if custom house porter fees (dragarpengar) are paid and a higher rate if no such fees are paid. This is the higher fee, when custom house porter fees were not paid.