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~~ Earliest recorded item from Newport Post Office
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This is the earliest recorded item from this small office, which opened in October 1862. The dispatch
date-stamp is a previously unrecorded usage of a special. "utility" device sent out in 1858. This device
was intended for tempol'81')' use at any office where the pennanent date-stamp was missing, damaged
or, as in this instance, had not yet arrived from England. Similar rnatkings, all exCC'A'Jdingly scarce, have
been recorded for Clarendon (Apr 1855), Manchioneal (Jul1859) and Dry Harbour (Nov 1860).

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1862 (12 Dec) part cover from Newport to Kingston. 2 x 4d and 2d stamps, comprising ~
111
4d postage (over 60 mile rate) plus 6d Registration fee ~

Registered mail from Jamaica in the pre-UPU (pre 1879) era is ~. The 6d Registration fee was in
use between 1858 and c. 1870-73, when it was reduced to 4d.