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.