Foreign Postage Rates

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 6, 1907

Foreign Postage Rates

OUR thoughtlessness often causes our faithful foreign missionaries to suffer. We write them letters, send them off without weighing, and then only pay the domestic postal rate. Then when the good missionary receives the letter, he has to pay what we should have paid, and as much more as a fine. For instance, a letter which will go for two cents in this country may require ten cents if sent to a foreign country; and if not paid by the sender, the receiver must pay that sum and as much more when the letter reaches him. The domestic rate is two cents for each ounce; the foreign rate is five cents for each half ounce. The domestic rate covers letters sent to Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Tutuila, the Philippines, Guam, and the Canal Zone; but if writing to any other countries or any other islands, the foreign rate must be paid. Weigh the letter, and attach five cents in stamps for each half ounce. None of the islands of the West Indies, save those named, take the domestic rate. So please take note of this when sending mail to Jamaica and Trinidad, and pay the foreign rate.