/revised 16 Aug 2010
Postage due items from USA to Sweden

On this site we present items sent from USA to Sweden subject to Postage due.

To find a specific item click on the rate period in the list below.

Please send .jpg images of any item with an unlisted rate to sspd@sastamps.se

1 July 1851 to 14 Aug 1853, Bremen Agreement (revised 18 Oct 2006)
1 Aug 1852 to 31 Jun 1858, US-UK mail agreements (revised 21 Oct 2008)
1 Oct 1852 to 30 Sep 1865, Prussian closed mail (revised 21 Oct 2008)
1 Oct 1865 to 31 Dec 1867, Prussian closed mail (revised 21 Oct 2008)
1867, via France (revised 8 Sep 2006)
1 Jun 1868 to 31 Mch 1869, North German Union Agreement (revised 25 Oct 2008)
1 Apr 1869 to 30 Jun 1870, North German Union Agreement(revised 25 Oct 2008)
1 Oct 1871 - 31 Jun 1875, North German Union Agreement (revised 25 Jul 2005)
26 Jun 1873 to 30 Jun 1875, US-Swedish Bilateral Convention (revised 24 Nov 2005)
1 July 1875 to 31 March 1879 (revised 15 May 2007)
1 Apr 1879 - ca April 1888 (revised 3 Jan 2009)
ca April 1888 - 31 Dec 1891 (revised 21 Oct 2008)
1 Jan 1892 - 30 Sep 1907 (revised 9 Jan 2007)
1 Oct 1907 - 30 Jun 1911 (revised 25 Jul 2005)
1 Jul 1911 - 30 Sep 1922 (revised 9 Apr 2007)
1 Oct 1925 - ca. 7 Nov 1936 (revised 9 Feb 2010)
ca 8 Nov 1936 - 7 July 1940 (revised 16 Aug 2010)
8 July 1940 - 29 Dec 1946 (added 24 Jul 2005)
30 Dec 1946 to 30 Jun 1948/23 May 1949 (revised 1 Aug 2005)
30 Jun1948/23 May 1949 - 19 Jan 1950 (revised 31 Jul 2005)
20 Jan 1950 - 31 Oct 1953 (revised 9 Aug 2010)
1 Nov 1953 - 30 Jun 1961 (revised 8 Feb 2009)
1 Jul 1961 - 31 Dec 1965 (revised 4 Jan 2009)
1 Jan 1966 - 31 Dec 1966 (revised 22 Aug 2009)
1 Jan 1967 - 30 April 1967 (revised 15 Nov 2007)
1 May 1967 - 30 June 1971 (revised 27 Jan 2010)
1 Jul 1971-30 Jun 1972 (revised 10 Oct 2008)
1 Jul 1972 - 1 Mar 1974 (revised 26 Jan 2010)
2 Mar 1974 - 30 April 1975 (revised 23 Oct 2005)
1 May 1975 - 31 Dec 1975 (revised 27 Jan 2010)
1 Jan 1976 - 31 Jan 1976 (revised 26 Jul 2005)
1 Feb 1976 - 28 Feb 1977 (revised 19 Aug 2009)
1 Mar 1977 - 31 Jan 1978 (revised 23 Aug 2009)
1 Mar 1978 - 29 May 1978 (revised 9 Apr 2007)
30 May 1978 - 15 Jun 1980 (revised 12 Oct 2006)
1 June 1981 - 31 May 1983 (revised 1 Aug 2005)
17 Feb 1985 - 2 Feb 1986(added 16 Aug 2010)
4 Sep 1989 - 1 Jan 1991 (added 14 Feb 2009)
3 Feb 1991 to 1992/94(?) (added 14 Jan 2007)

Litterature

Swedish-US agreement 1873-1875: Vår postala konvention med USA, Bertil I. Larsson, Postryttaren 1999, p.103-128

Other agreements before 1875: United States - Sweden: Letter mail Prior to the Bilateral Postal Convention of 1873, Richard F. Winter(Tucson, AZ 2001) (Part of the Nordia 2001 Symposium papers.)

XpoNAT IV Sweden  Postage Due Mail before 1892, Kersti Larsson and Bertil I. Larsson (2008)

US foreign rates: U.S. International Postal rates, 1872-1996, Antony S. Wawrukiewicz and Henry W. Becker (Portland, OR 1996)

Acknoledgment

SSPD is most grateful to the following postal historians for their valuable contributions to this study: Åke Rietz, Jan Grönwall, Anders Löthman, Richard Bodin.