Norwegian parcel rates are a complex matter, because there were different rates for each country, and there were often several different shipping routes. The Aune brothers have compiled information on international parcel rates in Norway on their website
https://www.norske-portotakster.no/pakkepost/pakkeporto.html
The Aune brothers write on the website: “An example of this is parcel rates to Turkey in 1912. The rates are divided into shipping routes, different cities, different countries’ post offices in the cities, weight rates, etc. In total, there are 69 rates! If the parcel rates 1875 – 2000 had been published in book form, it would have been several thousand pages.”
“We are working on systematizing the parcel post rates to foreign countries in the period 1875 – 2000, and will publish this as pdf files. There will be some shortcomings in the rates, as after 30 years of collecting source material we are still missing some parcel post rates and corrections to these…”
Kristian Aune was selected as the recipient of the 2025 Frederick A. Brofos Award given out by the Scandinavian Collectors Club (SCC). It is presented annually for the best article published in The Posthorn, the quarterly journal of the SCC. The winning article, “Parcel Post from Norway to the United States” appeared in two parts in issues 2/2025 and 3/2025.
