THE NEW POSTAL LAW by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1874

THE NEW POSTAL LAW.

By James White

The new postal law, regulating the postage on periodicals, which will take effect at the beginning of the year 1875, requires that the postage shall be prepaid. By this new law the postage on periodicals is very much reduced, so that the yearly postage on the Review and Herald, weekly, will be only about ten cents, and the postage on the Health Reformer, monthly, will be only about five cents a year.

We observe that some publishers are taking advantage of this change, and are adding to the prices of their periodicals a sum equal to the amount of present rates of postage. Should we do as others are doing in this respect we should put the price of the Review at $2.25 per year, and the Health Reformer at $1.15 per year. But we shall do no such thing. We shall not rob our patrons of the advantages of the reduction in rates of postage which the law provides for them. J. W.