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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 20, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 3.

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POSTAL RATES.

By Barbara C. Stickney

By request of the Oakland Vigilant Missionary Society, I have collected for publication a few facts in regard to domestic and foreign postage.
Letters to any part of the United States, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or British Columbia, for each half-ounce or fraction, three cents; periodicals and printed matter, to any part of the United States, one cent for each two ounces or fraction. Printed matter to other places mentioned above is liable to domestic rates, but on papers the postage is one cent for each paper not exceeding two ounces in weight.
The rate on letters, for each half-ounce or fraction, to all the countries composing the "Universal Postal Union," is five cents; and on papers or printed matter, to the same countries, one cent for each two ounces or fraction. The following are the principal countries embraced in this "Union":—
Aden, in India; Algeria; Argentine Republic; Austria—Hungary; Bahama Islands; Belgium; Bermuda Islands; Borneo; Brazil; Burmah—British; Hong Kong P. O. at Canton; Japanese P. O. at Ceylon; French Colony in Cochin China; Cuba; Island of Cyprus; Denmark, Ecuador; Egypt; France; Germany; Great Britain; Greece; Guiana—British, French and Netherlands; Hindostan; Honduras; Hong Kong; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Java; Liberia, Manilla; Mexico; Mozambique; Muscat; Natal; Netherlands; Newfoundland; Norway; Nubia; Persia; Peru; Philippine Islands; Porto Rico; Portugal; Russia; Senegal; Senegambia; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Soodan; Spain; Sumatra; Sweden; Switzerland; Tahiti; Turkey—European and Asiatic; Uruguay and Venezula.
The letter postage to Australia—except New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria—Hayti, and Shanghai is the same as above, but the postage on printed matter is two cents for each two ounces or fraction. To the Hawaiian Kingdom, or Sandwich Islands, the letter postage is six cents for each half-ounce or fraction; while the postage for printed matter is four cents for four ounces or fraction. To New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and New Zealand, the letter postage is twelve cents for each half-ounce or fraction, and postage on printed matter, four cents for each four ounces or fraction thereof.
The SIGNS, with sixteen-page tract or Instructor or four-page College Record, weighs less than two Nova Scotia, and British Columbia—the postage is the same for other printed matter as for papers. Where this is the case, it will be admissible to inclose tracts, etc., with our periodicals.
The SIGNS, with a sixteen-page tract or an Instructor or College Record, weighs less than two ounces. The Tidende or Harolden with a thirty-two page tract also weighs less than two ounces. Sixty-eight pages tracts or the Review will not exceed two ounces. Good Health weighs more than two ounces, but with the SIGNS and a sixteen page tract, or with the Review, it weighs but four ounces. In making this estimate an ordinary wrapper has been used.
Where further information is desired it will be necessary to inquire of your post-master, or obtain a "Postal Guide" which will be found very convenient for reference.
BARBARA C. STICKNEY.