Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-14
POSTAGE TO BE LOW Err,
Heavy Foreign Correspondence by Amer.
leans Will Soon Cost Less-Uni-
versal Postal Union.

Americans who have friends in for
eign lands will, after October ]. be en-
abcd to write them nice, gosSipy letters
without being forced into bankruptcy
| through paying the postage. The day
when letters 10 globe trotting friends
had 10 bc written ON tissue paper and
shorn of necessary yerbiagc is almost
past. and the travelling american will
| welcome the change almost as raptur-
oqsly as will the. stay at home who buys
| the stamps
The official bulletin from washington.
containing an order from the postmaster
| general arranging Tor the new rates.
(which We're decided on by the Universal
| Postal union in Rome in May, 1906, has
been received at the Milwaukee office.
The new agreement provides that for
| eign postage which heretofore has been
, cents for eacn half ounce, viii now |be
) cents for the first ounce and 3 ceifts
for each additional ounce or fractional
! part thereof. Letters weighing two
ounces under the old law cos9 20 cents
for postage Under the new agreement,
such letters can be sent for cents, or a
saving of go lSnr cent.
Another and important change of CON
sequence will be in the system of return
postage coupons which will 20 into eff
feet on October l. Persons dcsiFing to
incloSc return postage to their CORES
londcnts abroad will be able To purchase
Mt the postotiices in this country cou-
lpon for q cents which will be redeemed
in certain foreign countries and con
vertcd into = cents worth of foreign
stamps. This is. i'll Il way. an interim
tional mCney SYSTEM The turning of ,
cents American postage into = cents for
eign on the other side costs~only--l cent.
about enough TO cover the expense of eX-
change and printing.
In the order received in Milwaukee the
other day the other countries which have
agreed 10 accept this coupon system of
| exchange of postage are given as fol-
lows:
Germany. the German Protectorate and
German postotices in Asia, Africa and Aus
tralasa: Austria and the Austrian post
offices In the Leyant; Belgium Bosnia
Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria Chile, Ko-
rea. Costa Rca, Crete, Denmark and the
Danish Antilles; Egypt, Spain, France, the
French postofices in Morocco, and the
French colonies except Madagascar. Ma
cote. Mohele and establishments in India :;
Great Britain and the British colonies eN-
cept Orange River. Antigua. Barbados. Ber-
Iapnda, Cyprus Falkland Islands. British
Tulane; Jamaica, southern Nigeria, sara ,
temala, Haiti. Republic of Honduras, Hun
gary, Japan and Japanese postoifices in
China and Manchuria Luxemhurg Mexico.
New Zealand Norway, the Netherlands and
the Netherlands Iudies: Roumania, siam,
Sweden. Switzerland and Tunis.
All of these coupons. will finally land
in the International Bureau at Berne.
Switzerland, where they will be redeemed
ny the various nations providing them to
their subjects or citizens.
This coupon postage arrangement, 1t
is believed. will in time mean that the
international bureau 1T Berne will he
come an International clearing house,
and that system of international cur
rency will be found in vogue. In Eng
land. for INSTANCE. the correspondent of a
New Yorker may fluid his letter calling
ON BIN To purchase for him u book or
some trihe. and incl"Sed in the latter the
coupons fnr the equivalent of the cost in
stamps, which can he 6rned into Eng
fish currency 1t is tightening If the
facilities Of intrrcourseSbetween the PEG
nleS of the earth Evening Wisconsin.