Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1877 — RATES OF POSTAGE. [ARTICLE]
RATES OF POSTAGE.
ItETTXKS, prepaid by stamps, 3 cts. each oz. or fraction thereof, to all parts of the United States; forwarded to another Postofflce without charge, on request of the person addressed ; if not called for, roturned to the writer free, If Indorsed with that request* If tho stamp 1b omitted, tho Letter is forwardod*'’) tho Dead Lettor Office, and returned to tho wrfftlr 1 . For Jlegistering letters the charge Is 10 cts. additional. Drop or Local letters 2 cts. each % oz., prepaid. Stamped Postal Cards, furnished only by Government, 1 ct. each; if anything else is pasted on a postal card, letter postage Is charged. Postage on all Newspapers and Periodicals sent from atwrgnnarmnfUcrtvdn, oius-c- DbqWto l UpJJS'J.SwjiH tho office of mailing. Foreion Postage. —To France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark (Including Iceland and the Faroe Islands), Egypt, Spain (including tho Balearic Islos, the Canary Islands, the Spanish possessions on the northern coast of Africa, and the postal establishments of Spain upon the western coast of Morocco), Great Britain (including the Island of Malta), Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal (Including Madeira and the Azores), Itoumania, Russia, Finland, Servia, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, for prepaid letters, 5 cts. per )</ oz. Unpaid letters, 10 cents. Postal Cards, 2 cts. each. Newspapers, not over four oz., 2 cts. each. Books, othpr printed matter, patterns, legal documents, photographs, etc., 2 cts. for each 2 oz. Registration fee on ail correspondence, 10 cents.
