Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — Private Postal Companies. [ARTICLE]

Private Postal Companies.

Private postal companies, analagous to our express and telegraph corporations, do most of the business in China. They use no stamps, and it is necessary to prepay only about a third of the postage, as the rest is collected from the recipient. Chinese stamps are reckoned in candariues. approximately j equivalent to cents, with the Mexican ( dollar as the bails.