Post Office Details

Date: 01-Sep-1918
Title: Postal Rates between Kuwait and Iraq
Comments: Proclamation&nbsp;by&nbsp;Officiating&nbsp;C-in-C,&nbsp;Mesopotamian&nbsp;Expeditionary&nbsp;Force&nbsp;dated&nbsp;14th&nbsp;August 1918 re revised postage rates in Iraq from 1st September 1918, and Postal Notice&nbsp;dated 28th August 1918 by E. Clerici, Deputy Director, Postal Services (Civil), Iraq.<br /> <br /> The&nbsp;Postal&nbsp;Notice&nbsp;shows&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;postage rates&nbsp;to&nbsp;Koweit&nbsp;are&nbsp;the&nbsp;same&nbsp;as&nbsp;those&nbsp;to&nbsp;India,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the rates between Koweit and India are Indian inland rates (The Postal History of Iraq by&nbsp;Patrick C. Pearson and Edward B. Proud &ndash; presumably the Proclamation and Postal&nbsp;Notice were published&nbsp;in the local newspapers at the time).<br /> &nbsp;