Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-05-25
WORK or TWO GENT STAMP
Now Carries Letters to Remotest
Islands Of the Sea.

ASIauOS % INC O0H.
American 2 cent stamp now
encircle the globe.
The recent addition of Haiti
and Bermuda to places where
2 cents will carry a letter calls
attention to the vast extension,
III the last few years, of the
cruising radius of our 2 cent
stamps says a bulletin Of the
National Geographic society. -
With the tiny red square you
may dispatch a letter northward
to a point where it will be car
ried to it's journeys end by a dog
sled into some Eskimo village, or
southwark across the equator to-
ward mule back journey up the
Andes or a canoe trip into a white
settlement among the TERRA del
Fuego natives.
Theoretically you are entitled
10 send a letter with 2 cent
stamp as far north as Cape Co.
lumbia, to the point on Grant
Land which is supposed to be
Canada s farthest north, were
there either postoffice or friend
t. receive it, and to the far south
of Patagonia or across the Strait
of Magellan to the Argentine por-
ton of TERRA del Fuego. The
southern limit of your 2 cent
correspondence does not quite
reach Cape Horn, which belongs
to Chile, with which 2 cent
rate has mot yet been arranged.
East and west your 2 cent
stamp will reach to New Zealand
and Samoa, and to the U. S. pos
tai agency at Shanghai, China,
and the U. s. naval hospital at
Yokohama, Japan. Other points
III China and Japan require the
usual foreign rate OF 5 cents.
-: The alphabetical list of some
% places where foreign letter
will go at the rate of cents an
ounce or fraction thereof seems
complicated. But it ism t hard
to remember il you catalogue it
geographically instead of alpha
betlcaily. Briefly, you can send
q a.lerter anywhere in North Amer
lea and to all important points IN
the West Indies for 2 cents. The
2 cent rate applies to all South
American countries except Vene-
zuela and Chile, Paraguay and
Uruguay, and Dutch and French
Guiana.
I'm Europe, only England, Ire
land, Scotland and Wales are in
cluded in the 2 cent zone. All of
Asia requires a 5 cent stamp ex-
ccpt the points mentioned above.
OF course it is to be remembered
that the 2 cent rate as we'll as
other domestic rates apply to
Alaska, the Canal Zone, Guam,
the Philippines, Porto Rico, the
Virgin Islands and American
Somoa. ...'
Agreement by which more
countries gradually are being ad-
ded to the 2 cent list are reached
through the Universal Postal
Union, which first met at Berne
In 1874. The oft-repeated state
ment that the postoffice is a civil
izing agent is realized more fully
when it is noted that representa-
tiyes of the central powers, the
Allied countries and the United
States met in friendly conference
at Madrid in 1920. AS this was
the first meeting Of the Universal
Postal Union since the sessions of
1926, III Rome, a great volume of
business was transacted.
Both Germany and America,
10 fact, are entitled to more than
alphabetical precedence in the
Uhi4ersal Postal Union. The sue
cess pf conference called at the
instid dation of the United States
az yeA hrs before the Postal Union
was Il rmed, and the operation of
the A etro-G German Postal Union
which lad functioned effectively
since 80, had a direct bearing
upon u organization which made
1t possi le for a 2 cent stamp to
carry yur written message to
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