The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-08-20
Hktc. OF Postal Cards.


The JolfssI Of the franklin Inst:.
tute givss the following interesting
account q the postal cards abroad
The itea Gpostal cards is attribtu-
: ed 10 DR.. Emnuel Herman, Profes-
sOr in the Ftnna Military Academy.
They WGe.itrodueed into England
4 in 1870, sttb price of one half-penny
lone cert, be letter postage being
one penny. The average circulation
there hs risn to q million and q hall
q week. AGe than seventy-five mil
lions wee sent in 1871, and this num-
Der wasexcesded in 1872. The num-
Der oflftenmailed, so far from di-
minishngin consequence of the in
troductDn oithe cheap postal card,
as hao been predicted, has actually
increasG in place of 693, 900, 900 Of
letters carried in 1870, $4,000, 900
were fported in 1871, an increase of
52,OOOHOs This enormous increase
raises ne mean percentage of the an
nual progression, which. for the five
prevlols years, from 1866 to 1870, has
been bur per cent. up to six per cent.
In Germany the introduction of
card orespondenee was decreed in
June, $40, and it began practically a
montnlater. The advantages offered
by it cased to be rapidly extended,
althouh the price had been fixed at
that the st one grOscheu (2k cents),
the sane as letter postage. On the
first OF lnly, 1872, this prics was re-
duced b one half a groschen II
cents, liter postage remaining as
before. 6ere also the Introduction of
the postal sard has not interfered
with the number of letters mailed,
which, in plae OF 2O5, ,Oa0. 900 in 1870,
became 240,O0,0O0 in 1871. A most
valuable addition to the postal-card
system, moreover. has been adopted
in Germany, and has extended to
Holland, to Eelgium, and to SGitzar-
land. Beside the simple postal card
q double oneis also issued, having a
prepaid card attached for the answer.
The two card correspond in size, each
bears the stamp, and they are sold at
a double prie.
"In Switzerland, the postal card
system was Introduced October l, 1870,
the price bang five centimes lone
cent?. In 187, 1,7l3,7l0 cards were
sent. The ldters mailed increased
from 20, AIS, 81 in 1870, to 25,56S. .35I
in 1871.
Belgium dopted postal cards July
l, 1871, the pice being five centimes
lone cent?. 1t first the system was
local, but it has since become general.
The number d letters sent has as in
other counties, steadily increased.
On the lst of January, 1873, the Min
ister of Publt Works under whose
are al postal and telegraph
ic arrangements ordered the issue of
double postal ards, having q prepaid
card for answer.
Norway has had postal card CORES
pondence sine January l, 1872, the
price st first Ieing that of ordinary
letter postage, nine skiIlings go
cents). 1t hassince been reduced to
two skillings within the same postal
district. The results generally are
regarded as satisfactory.
"In Sweden the price of the postal
lard, at first fixed at II ore (34 cents).
mas been reduced to 10 ore (2.8 cents).
In Denmark the system was adopted
April /, 1871. The general card costs
skillings GA cents. and the dis
.rict card 2 skillings Q.2 cents).
in Russia, postal cards were intro
iuced January l, 1872. The general
lard is furnished at kopecks a cents
md the district card at kOpecks e
'ents). In Austria the postal card
'Osts 2 kreutzers q cent? The system
vas adopted in October, 1869, and the
irst year 100000 of cards were sold.
Spain has decided upon postal cards;
freece and Portugal are about TO is
ne them, and in Italy the same
curse has been resolved upon. Tur-
,ey alone has failed to see the advan-
ages of the postal system and to
dopt it."