Some Austrian Postage Rates in 1938

  • Column (A) is rates on 1 Jan (in Groschen) according to Michel
  • Column (B) is rates on 4 April (in Reichspfennig/Groschen), according to Wurth’s 1980 year-book pages 45 & 105 and the WienerGFuPV
  • Column (C) is the same rates, re-stated on 8 July in Reichspfennig, according to Wurth pages 46-8 & 111
  • Column (D) is rates on 1 August (in Reichspfennig) reprinted on 1 November, according to Wurth page 113
  • ‘Inland’ included Germany & Danzig. Rates marked ‘N/a’ did not exist.
Inland (A) (B) (C) (D)
Local letter to 20gm N/a 8/12 8 8
20+ - 250gm 16/24 16 16
250+ - 500gm 20/30 20 20
500+ - 1000gm 67 30
Inland letter to 20gm 24 12/18 12 12
20+ - 250gm 36 24/36 24 24
250+ - 500gm 50 40/60 40 40
500+ - 1000gm 100 67/100 67 60
Local Postcard N/a 5/8 5 5
Inland postcard 12 6/9 6 6
Registration fee 40 27/40 27 30
Express: local 30 20/30 20 40
Express: inland 30 20/30 20 80
Printed matter of 20gm 5 3/5 3 3
Foreign
Letter to Hungary: to 20gm 45 20/30 20 20
For each further 20gm 25 10/15 10 10
Letter to Czechoslovakia: to 20gm 45 20/30 20 20
For each further 20gm 35 15/23 15 15
Letter to anywhere else: to 20gm 60 25/38 25 25
For each further 20gm 35 15/23 15 15
Postcard to Czechoslovakia, Hungary 25 10/15 10 10
Postcard to 'full-rate' countries 35 15/23 15 15
Registration fee 70 47/70 47 30