Foreign Mail by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1875

Foreign Mail.

By Editor

By the new postal law which took effect July 1, 1875, uniform rates of postage are established to Great Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Spain, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. The new rates are as follows:—

For pre-paid letters, 5 cents for each half ounce, or fraction thereof. For unpaid letters, 10 cents for each half ounce. For postal cards, 2 cents each. For newspapers, if not over four ounces in weight, 2 cents each. For books, pamphlets, and other printed matter, 2 cents for each weight of two ounces or fraction thereof.