What is believed to be a new record for high postage paid on a single parcel was established in America recently, when a package was sent from Philadelphia to San Francisco by air mail carrying 150 dollars in stamps. Postal regulations prohibited local clerks divulging any description of the package, its contents, or recipient, 1 but the parcel was nearly covered with cancelled 5 dollar stamps. The air mail postage across the continent is 4 dollars a pound. The package went to New York and thence by 'plane westward.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 6
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89Untitled Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 6
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