Last week a citizen in Seattle could sit down, write and mail a letter to London, one-third around the world, for a 2¢ stamp. Next week the Seattle letter-writer will have to buy a 5¢ stamp to carry the same correspondence to the same destination. The U. S. Post Office Department has ordered several rate increases on foreign first class mail as of Sept. 1. To Britain and the Irish Free State letter postage has been upped 3¢ for the first ounce, in an attempt to reduce the postal deficit and bring first-class revenue...
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