POSTAL RATES: CONTINUED

1889, 8 March
Due to the bad financial situation and the devaluating of the Rubel, 8 March 1889 new rates were introduced for mail abroad (in the Asiatic parts of Russia 1 April 1889):
Letters abroad 10 k. per lot (15 gram)


Letter from Vilnius-Voksal to Germany (27 November 1913), with the new abroad-tariff: 10 kop.
Real size of the bmp-scan: 17,142 x 13,410 cm

Postcards abroad 4 k.
Registering abroad 10 k. for 1 item


Letter, from Mariampole to Stendal, 1891, registered.
Postmark Mariampole:
Real size of the bmp-scan:14,493 x 8,546 cm


Tariff abroad 10 k. + registering 10 k.

1913, 9 October: introduction of the metric system by the Russian Post: 1.17 lots or 15 gram exactly.

1914, 21 September
Due to World War I the rates were put up:
Letters inland 10 k. per 15 gramme
Register 10 k.

1917, 15 August again up:
Letters inland 15 k. per 15 gramme
Postcards 5 k.
Register 20 k.

1917, 1 September
All rates were doubled, but in the confusion this is not applied everywhere.


POSTAGE FREEDOM
In the Russian Empire all official instititions (departments, tsar-family, local authorities) were free of port fee payments. So also the churches had postage freedom:


'SZAKI' is Polish transcription for the Russian , in German 'Schaken' and in Lithuanian 'Sakiai'.
Picture (JPEG resized to 60 %) send by M. Lam

With on the backside a church postmark:

The church postmark:

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Befehl Seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät..... 1830 In: Philatelia Baltica 1974 ; 57. - p. 14-16	[Imperial order.... 1830, translated into German for the inhabitants of Livonia]
Befehl Seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät..... 1843 In: Philatelia Baltica 1975 ; 60. - p. 12-14	[Imperial order.... 1843, translated into German for the inhabitants of Livonia]
Vom 20 März (1 April) 1879 in Kraft tretende Post-Regeln für inländische und ausländische Correspondenz, Taxe-Ermässigungen, sowie einige Abänderungen der vom Post-Departement im Jahre 1875 erlassenen Postregeln / aus dem Russischen übersetzt vom Postbeamten C. Röhsler. - Riga, 1879 Reprint in: Philatelia Baltica 1975 ; 61. - p. 6-15	[Postal regulations, translated into German for the inhabitants of Livonia]
Weights, rates, and routes / by A. Epstein In: Rossica 1996 ; no. 127. - p. 46-60	[overview by amount, with many illustrations]
Weights, rates, and routes, Part II / by A. Epstein In: Rossica 1998 ; no. 131. - p. 86-103	[overview by amount, with many illustrations]
Pré-U.P.U. Imperial Russian postal rates / by John V. Woollam In: The Post-Rider 1996 ; no. 38. - p. 4-10	[rates to international destinations]
Eesti / V. Hurt, E. Ojaste. - 1986 . - 767 p.. - With supplement 1988	[information about postal rates in imperial Russia: p. 404-406]
Russian postmarks : an introduction and guide / A.V. Kiryushkin and P.E. Robinson [S.l.] : J. Barefoot, cop. 1989. - 110 p.	[Information about the postal rates: p. 94-97]

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