Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1919 — Times Have Changed. [ARTICLE]

Times Have Changed.

It Is said that the post office in Philadelphia gets $15,000 a day less as the result of going from the three-cent back to the two-cent rate for letters. That happens to be exactly the sum which Benjamin Franklin was able to turn over to Great Britain in annual revenues from the post offices in the colonies in 1774, after he had put in four years of hard work in creating a postal system.