WORLD’S POSTAL RATES
CANADA ADOPTS NEW SCALE. FIVE CENTS PER LETTER. VANCOUVER, July 21, •/Postal changes adopted at the World postal convention held in Lon-idori-'-in'-1929 took effect in Canada on July liVMost notable, is the letter rate of five; cents; jpey- diuice or less to all places, outside Canada, with the exception of places in the British, Empire, France' . and . the. Noi'tlte and 'Spilth American Dontinents,- to which 'j-ith&c domestic ‘Canadian ; rate’'applies. -letters weighing 'more than one CotHice/,,.i the fate will be'jfjve ; c6;hts for. the first ounce and . three cents for each additional, ounce-.. or •*.. fraction thereof. Tiie> postcard /.rate;' With the same exceptions;’ will be three cents for a single card or for each half-of feply ’card. Printed matter takes i-.of. two .’'cents forLevevy ..two ounces, and must he fully prepaid. .There is a“ ..special provision of a Unfit 'of : 11 !> ' for parcels of literature for the bjind. A five-cent rate for parcels of commercial papers not exceeding- lOozs ;ya ,twp-rcent. rate for -samples not exceeding 4oz, and a' seven-eent reply coupon are other provisions of the new. schedule. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 3
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180WORLD’S POSTAL RATES Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 3
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