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Nigeria Post Office Regulations and rates

This page gathers together a range of documents spanning nearly 100 years which deal with aspects of Nigerian Post Office regulations and Nigerian postal rates

Here are the postal services extracts from the PO Guide for 1932

These are notices about post office charges dated 1st May 1921 and 1st March 1923

A group of scans giving some postal rates from 2018 onwards

Nigeria Postal Regulations 1917 and Post Office Ordinances for 1916 and 1928
A PDF for the first is here, for the 1916 ordinance here, for the 1928 ordinance here.

Nigeria King George VI period postage rates
This document was gathered together by our late member Nigel Lutwyche. Some of the information has appeared in issues of Cameo and is reproduced here with some information that had not been previously published by WASC.

Nigeria Postal Service Post Office Guide 2009 and Postal Tariffs 2001
The 2009 Guide was scanned by Edet Akpan in Calabar, organised further and translated to PDF by Peter Hørlyck and Paul Redhead: many thanks to each of those members. The PDF is not searchable. The 2001 Tariff booklet was also photographed by Edet Akpan.

A table compiled by Frank Walton giving minimum inland letter rates from 1914

Postal rates from 1919 Nigeria Handbook

Postal rates from 1922 Nigeria Handbook

Postal regulations and postage rates from Northern Nigeria Gazette dated 31.1.1903

A summary of Nigerian aerogramme and registered letter rates 1954 to 1991 compiled by Tony Plumbe

Postal rates taken from 1966 and 1967 Nigeria year-books. And combined .pdf of rates 1965 to 1970 also from Nigeria year-books (Ray Harris)

Postal rates taken from 1963 and 1966 stamp booklets (Ray Harris)

Notes of a discussion on postal rates between Peter Horlyk, Ray Harris and Rob May

Summary of rates 1973, first decimal postage (Ray Harris)

Postage rates summary 1.6.79 taken from Niger News (Ray Harris)

Notes on postal tariff increase August 2021 Edet Akpan)

Various tariffs, taken from NIPOST website November 1993 (Ray Harris)