Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-09-12
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE TO
BE LESS HEAVILY TAXED.
UNIVERAL POSTAL UNION
Rate Cut in Half and Second Ounce
Goes for Three cents-order Ap-
plies to Nearly All Foreign
countries-Arrangem for Return
of UncaIIed-for Letters.

As yet Postmaster Keyes has re-
ceived no official notification of the
order made by the postmaster general
which will enforce the recommends
ton of the universal postal union,
made at Rome In 1906. The order
doubt will be officially communicated
to the local Office before the date
when it goes into effect. Under the
order Madisonians who have friends
in foreign lands will, after October l,
be enabled to write them nice, gossipy
letters without being forced into
bankruptcy through paying the post
age. The day when letters to globe
trotting friends had to be written On
tissue paper and shorn of necessary
ver5iage is almost past, and the trav-
cling American will welcome the
change almost as rapturously as will
the stay at home who buys the
stamps.
The official bulletin from Washing
ton, containing an order from the post
master general arranging for the new
rates, has been authorized The
agreement provides that foreign post
age which heretofore has been cents
for each half ounce, will now be 5
cents for the first ounce and cents
for each additional ounce or fractional
part thereof. Letters weighing two
ounces under the old law cost 20
cents for postage. Under the new
agreement, such letters can be sent
for cents, or saving of so per cent.
New Return Arrangement.
Another and important change of
consequence will be in the system of
return postage coupons which will go
into euect on October 1. Persons de-
string TO enclose return postage to
their correspondents abroad will be
able to purchase at the postoffices in
this country a coupon for cents
which will be redeemed in certain for
eign countries and converted into 5
cents worth of foreign stamps This
is, in way, an international money
system. The turning of cents
American postage into cents foreign
on the other side costs only 1 cent,
about enough to cover the expense of
exchange and printing.
New Rate Almost Universal.
The new arrangement for exchange
postage has been accepted by Ger
many, the German protectorate and
German postoffices in Asia, Africa and
Australasia; Austria and the Austrian
postoffices in the levant; Belgium,
Chile, Korea, Costa RIGA, Crete, Den
mark and the Danish Antilles; Egypt
Spain, France, the French postoffices
in Morocco, and the French colonies
except Madagascar, Magotte, Mohele
and establishments in India; Great
Britain and the British colonies ex-
cept Orange river, Antigua Barbados.
Bermuda, Cyprus. Falkland Islands,
British Guiana, Jamaica. Southern
Nigeria, Sarawak, Trinidad and Fan
zibar; Greece, Guatemala, Haiti. Re-
public of Honduras Hungary, Japan
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Manchuria; Luxembourg, Mexico, New
Zealand, Norway, the Netherlands and
the Netherlands Indies; Roumania,
Siam, Sweden, Switzerland and Tunis.
All of these coupons will finally land
in the international bureau at Berne.
Switzerland, where they will be re-
deemed by the various nations provid-
ing them to their subjects or citizens.
This coupon postage arrangement
it is believed, will in time mean that
the international bureau at Berne will
become an International clearing
house and that system of interna-
tional currency will be found in vogue.
In England, for instance, the cores
pendent of New Yorker may find his
letter calling on him to purchase for
MIN a book or some trifle. and in
closed in the latter the coupons for
the equivalent of the cost in stamps.
which can be turned into English
currency. II is a widening. of the
facilities of intercourse between the
peoples of the earth.