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POSTAL RATES OF HUNGARY<\/h2>\n

INTRODUCTION AND INDEX<\/h3>\n

Understanding the postal rates of Hungary is a key to being able in interpret items of postal history, but these have not been well understood. Information has generally been available only from scattered articles, books and catalogues, mostly in the Hungarian language which can be difficult to interpret correctly.<\/p>\n

A review of available information has been cross-checked with archival information from the postal instruction documents, now available on-line up to 1948, in order to improve traceability of the data. More modern data have been collected mainly from Magyar Posta\u2019s publicly available rates sheets.<\/p>\n

The rate information is broken down by class of mail, each class being subdivided and accessible as pdf file via links. Click on a link to open the file. The files are of varying length depending on the nature of the data and period over which such data are available. They include numerous notes and translations of postal document notices where relevant.<\/p>\n

Section 1.1 contains an overall introduction, caveats, details of sources, the approach used, and currency, weight and distance data. It is suggested that this is looked at first. For each class of mail the first item in each sub-list contains some background information on the operation of that class, the methodology of establishing the rates, and the sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1. General notes and data sources<\/strong><\/td>\n1.1 General notes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. Letters, inland<\/strong><\/td>\n2.1 Inland rates \u2013 1850-1918<\/a>
\n2.2 Inland rates \u2013 1918-1926 then to 1945<\/a>
\n2.3 Inland rates \u2013 Second inflation period \u2013 1945-46 <\/a>
\n2.4 Inland rates \u2013 1946-2025 <\/a>
\n2.5 Inland \u2013 value declared<\/a>
\n2.6 Notes on War Tax <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3. Letters – foreign <\/strong><\/td>\n3.1 Foreign rates 1850 \u2013 1918<\/a>
\n3.2 Foreign rates \u2013 First inflation period \u2013 1918-1926<\/a>
\n3.3 Foreign rates \u2013 1926-68<\/a>
\n3.4 Foreign rates \u2013 1971-2025<\/a>
\n3.5 Foreign declared value rates<\/a>
\n3.6 Notes on Sea-post Surcharge<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4. Postcards<\/strong><\/td>\n4.1 Inland and foreign rates \u2013 1869-1945<\/a>
\n4.2 Inland and foreign rates \u2013 1945-1946<\/a>
\n4.3 Inland and foreign rates \u2013 1946-2025<\/a>
\n4.4 Sending postcards as printed matter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5. Printed Matter, Samples, Business Papers, Newspapers, etc.<\/strong><\/td>\n5.1 Definitions<\/a>
\n5.2 Printed papers<\/a>
\n5.3 Samples<\/a>
\n5.4 Business papers<\/a>
\n5.5 Newspapers<\/a>
\n5.6 Books<\/a>
\n5.7 Braille literature for the blind<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6. Special services (registration, express, urgent, etc<\/em>.)<\/strong><\/td>\n6.1 Inland<\/a>
\n6.2 Foreign<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7. Airmail surcharges<\/strong><\/td>\n7.1 Regular services \u2013 to 1945<\/a>
\n7.2 Regular services \u2013 from 1946<\/a>
\n7.3 Parcels<\/a>
\n7.4 Special flights<\/a>
\n7.5 Zeppelin flights<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8. Postal money orders<\/strong><\/td>\n8.1 Inland<\/a>
\n8.2 Foreign<\/a>
\n8.3 Cash-on-delivery \u2013 Inland<\/a>
\n8.4 Cash-on-delivery \u2013 Foreign<\/a>
\n8.5 Postal money order collection <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9. Parcels <\/strong><\/td>\n9.1 Inland Fahrpost<\/em> 1842-1871<\/a>
\n9.2 Inland 1872-1919<\/a>
\n9.3 Inland 1920-1945<\/a>
\n9.4 Budapest local parcel service 1932-1944<\/a>
\n9.5 Inland 1945-1946<\/a>
\n9.6 Inland 1946-2025<\/a>
\n9.7 Foreign rates<\/a>
\n9.8 Small valuable boxes (\u00c9rt\u00e9kdoboz, <\/em>1891-1946)<\/a>
\n9.9 Small foreign parcels (Kiscsomag<\/em>, 1930-2002)<\/a>
\n9.10 Foreign rates, \u2018M-sack\u2019 (2002-2024)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10. Postal forms<\/strong><\/td>\n10.1 Postal forms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11. Occupied territories<\/strong><\/td>\n11.1 Postal rates of occupied territories 1919-1921<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POSTAL RATES OF HUNGARY INTRODUCTION AND INDEX Understanding the postal rates of Hungary is a key to being able in interpret items of postal history, but these have not been well understood. Information has generally been available only from scattered articles, books and catalogues, mostly in the Hungarian language which can be difficult to interpret correctly. A review of available information has been cross-checked with archival information from the postal instruction documents, now available on-line up to 1948, in order to improve traceability of the data. More modern data have been collected mainly from Magyar Posta\u2019s publicly available rates sheets. The rate information is broken down by class of mail, each class being subdivided and accessible as pdf file via links. Click on a link to open the file. The files are of varying length depending on the nature of the data and period over which such data are available. They include numerous notes and translations of postal document notices where relevant. Section 1.1 contains an overall introduction, caveats, details of sources, the approach used, and currency, weight and distance data. It is suggested that this is looked at first. For each class of mail the first item in each sub-list contains some background information on the operation of that class, the methodology of establishing the rates, and the sources. 1. General notes and data sources 1.1 General notes 2. Letters, inland 2.1 Inland rates \u2013 1850-1918 2.2 Inland rates \u2013 1918-1926 then to 1945 2.3 Inland rates \u2013 Second inflation period \u2013 1945-46 2.4 Inland rates \u2013 1946-2025 2.5 Inland \u2013 value declared 2.6 Notes on War Tax 3. Letters – foreign 3.1 Foreign rates 1850 \u2013 1918 3.2 Foreign rates \u2013 First inflation period \u2013 1918-1926 3.3 Foreign rates \u2013 1926-68 3.4 Foreign rates \u2013 1971-2025 3.5 Foreign declared value rates 3.6 Notes on Sea-post Surcharge 4. Postcards 4.1 Inland and foreign rates \u2013 1869-1945 4.2 Inland and foreign rates \u2013 1945-1946 4.3 Inland and foreign rates \u2013 1946-2025 4.4 Sending postcards as printed matter 5. Printed Matter, Samples, Business Papers, Newspapers, etc. 5.1 Definitions 5.2 Printed papers 5.3 Samples 5.4 Business papers 5.5 Newspapers 5.6 Books 5.7 Braille literature for the blind 6. Special services (registration, express, urgent, etc.) 6.1 Inland 6.2 Foreign 7. Airmail surcharges 7.1 Regular services \u2013 to 1945 7.2 Regular services \u2013 from 1946 7.3 Parcels 7.4 Special flights 7.5 Zeppelin flights 8. Postal money orders 8.1 Inland 8.2 Foreign 8.3 Cash-on-delivery \u2013 Inland 8.4 Cash-on-delivery \u2013 Foreign 8.5 Postal money order collection 9. Parcels 9.1 Inland Fahrpost 1842-1871 9.2 Inland 1872-1919 9.3 Inland 1920-1945 9.4 Budapest local parcel service 1932-1944 9.5 Inland 1945-1946 9.6 Inland 1946-2025 9.7 Foreign rates 9.8 Small valuable boxes (\u00c9rt\u00e9kdoboz, 1891-1946) 9.9 Small foreign parcels (Kiscsomag, 1930-2002) 9.10 Foreign rates, \u2018M-sack\u2019 (2002-2024) 10. Postal forms 10.1 Postal forms 11. Occupied territories 11.1 Postal rates of occupied territories 1919-1921<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpsgb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}