For England
| 1660 | 1711 | |
| Not exceeding 80 miles | 2d. | 3d. |
| Above 80 miles | 3 | 4 |
| Between London and Edinburgh | 5 | 6 |
| Between London and Dublin | 6 | 6 |
Within Ireland
| Not exceeding 40 miles from Dublin | 2d. | 2d. |
| Above 40 miles from Dublin | 4 | 4 |
Within Scotland (Scotch Act, 1695)
| Not exceeding 50 miles from Edinburgh | 2d. | 2d. |
| From 50 to 80 miles from Edinburgh | 3 | |
| From 50 to 100 miles from Edinburgh | 3 | |
| Above 80 miles from Edinburgh | 4 | |
| Above100 miles from Edinburgh | 4 |
The act of 1660 imposed rates on letters in Scotland from Berwick as a centre. By that act rates had been fixed for distances not exceeding 40 miles and for distances over forty miles from Berwick, being 2d. and 4d. for single letters for the respective distances, so that by the act of 1711, the Scotch rates were lower than they had been in 1660 and slightly higher than those of 1695. When forty miles was made the lowest distance according to which rates were levied, it was thought and intended that 2d., the rate for that distance, would pay for a single letter from Berwick to Edinburgh. As a matter of fact, the distance between the two places was fifty miles, so that the Scotch Act had estimated it better.
In the rates as given above, an exception is made in the case of letters directed on board ship or brought by it. For such letters one penny was charged in addition to the rates already given. This extra penny was charged because the postmaster in the place where the ship first touched was required to pay the master of the vessel one penny for every letter received. Foreign letters collected or delivered at any place between London and the port of departure or arrival of the ship for which they were destined or by which they had come, must pay the same rate as if they had left or arrived in London.
As far as foreign post rates were concerned they were all from 1d. to 3d. higher than they had been by the act of 1660. The lowest foreign rate for a single letter, 10d., was paid between London and France, and London and the Spanish Netherlands. To Germany and Northwestern Europe, through the Spanish Netherlands, the rate was 12d., to Italy or Sicily the same way 12d., postpaid to Antwerp, or 15d. via Lyons. The same rates held for letters passing through the United Provinces. To Spain or Portugal via the Spanish Netherlands or the United Provinces or France, postpaid to Bayonne, the rate was 18d. for a single letter, and the same price held when letters were conveyed directly by sailing packets.