Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — High Postage. [ARTICLE]

High Postage.

The following were the rates of postage in this country in the year 1800: Every letter composed of a single sheet of paper conveyed not exceeding 40 miles, 8 cents; over 40 miles and not exceding 150 mjles, 12% cents; over 150 and not exceeding 300. miles, 17 cents; over 200 miles and not exceeding 500 miles, 20 cents; over 500 miles, 25 cents. Every letter composed of two pieces of paper, double those rates; every letter composed of three pieces of paper, triple those rates; every letter composed of four pieces of paper weighing one ounce, quadruple those rates, and at the rate of four single letters for each ounce any letter or packet may weigh, every ship letter originally received at an office for delivery, with 6 cents.—New York Tribune.