The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-10-19
POSTAL RATE

POSTAL RATE SUMMARY
The four principal points in the
new postage rate ruling, which goes
into effect on Nov. 2, 1917, are given
as follows:
First class letters for delivery be-
yond the office at which posted must
bear 3 cents postage instead of q
cents.
Postcards manufactured by the
government and bearing impressed
stamps will be sold for 2 cents each
instead of the former rate of l cent
each.
Private mailing post cards must
bear 2 cents postage instead of l
cent.
Drop letters for delivery from
the same office where posted still
carry a postage rate of 2 cents each.
Increased rates of postage on all
first class mail will go into effect in
Glasgow and other cities of the count
ry on the morning of November 2,
next, according to official notification.
The new rate on sealed letters for de-
livery outside of the carrier service
of the Glasgow postoffice will be three
cents for each ounce O. fraction
thereof. A flat rate of two cents
postage will be required on all private
mailing post cards. Post cards manu-
featured by the government and form
erly sold stamped for one cent, will
cost two cents each after November 2.
Drop letter rates remain unchanged,
drop letters being considered as all
letters designed for delivery from the
same office where mailed. This drop
letter rate still remains two cents.
Evasion of the new law by purchase
of stamped cards and envelopes be-
fore November 2, will be impossible.
Post cards now being sold for one
cent will not be delivered after Nov.
2 unless an additional one-cent stamp
is affixed, the same ruling applying
to letters, whether bearing the i'm
printed government stamp or carry
ing an affixed two-cent stamp. The
burden will be thrown upon the re-
cipient of the letter after that date,
Letters will be transported through
the mails when they carry the two
cent stamp, but will be held up at
the point of delivery until the postage
due is paid.
The following is the wording of the
official notice from the postmaster
general received here:
pursuant to the regulations, post
masters shall, on and after November
2, 1917, see that postage is paid at
the rate of three cents an n or
fraction thereof on letters and other
first class matter except drop letters,
that is, letters mailed for delivery
from the office at which posted, in
GLIDING those for delivery by city, rur-
al or other carrier of such an office,
are requied to have postage paid on
them at the rate of two cents an ounce
or fraction thereof. Postal cards are
required to be prepaid two cents and
therefore, the one-cent postal cards
must have a o~ne-cent postage STAMP
affixed to them in addition to the one
cent stamp impressed on the cards
Post cards (private mailing cards)
| bearing written messages, must have
: two cents postage prepaid on them.
"Postmasters at offices of address
shall be careful. to rate up with the
proper amount of postage due all mai
reaching their offices with the post.
y age insufficiently prepaid"
e Regarding the private mailing pos
, cards, the law makes the following
explanation:
, "It shall be lawful to transmit b,
e mail, at the postage rate of two cent.
each, payable by stamps to be affixed
by the sender and under such regula
S tions as tn postmaster general ma!
prescribe. written messages on p~rivat,
mailing cards, such cards to be sen
openly in the mails, to be no larger
: than the size fixed by the convention
e of the Universal Postal Union, and t.
be approximately of the same. form
e quality and weight as the. stamped
y postal cards now in general use in tn
United States"
Letters sent unsealed through tn
n mails are to be considered third-clas