Change of Postage Rates to Canada.
By Editor
WE sincerely regret that there has been a change of postal rates between this government and Canada. There is no use of our giving the long article upon which this is based. The order of the government is that commencing on the 8th day of May, 1907, the postal rate applicable in the United States to second-class matter addressed for delivery in Canada shall be one cent for each four ounces or fraction of four ounces, calculated on the rate of each package, and prepaid by means of postage stamps affixed. Papers go now for one cent a pound to all parts of the United States. Formerly this was the rate to Canada; therefore we could furnish the SIGNS to our subscribers in Canada at the same rate as in the United States. But now the postage which we must pay to Canada is four times that which we must pay on papers in the United States; and, therefore, in order that we may not lose—a thing which we are sure our subscribers in Canada will appreciate—we must raise the price of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES to $1.75 a year. We are bound, we feel, to fill all the unexpired subscriptions at the old rate, unless our subscribers themselves wish to make a donation of what we may lose; but all subscriptions taken hereafter must be at the rate of $1.75 a year, $1.25 in clubs. Will all workers, agents, and subscribers please make note of this. We hope that we shall be able to make the paper so good that our subscribers in Canada will not leave us. We are asking them only about one-half extra of what it means to send the paper to single subscribers.