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2. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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   The ship fee, including the ship rate on letters for delivery at the port of entry, were on a per letter basis, rather than weight. The United States issued its first postage stamps in 1847. Before that time, the letters' rates, dates, and origins were written by hand or sometimes in combination with a handstamp device. [1]

3. Stamp prices just went up again. Here’s what the U.S. Postal ...

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   Here are the first-class mail price increases, effective Sunday, according to the Postal Service website: One-ounce letter (domestic): 58 cents to 60 cents. Single-piece letter (extra ounce): 20 ...

4. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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   Moreover, the common rate now applied to letters carried up to 3000 miles. This rate, however, only applied to prepaid mail: a letter sent without a stamp still cost the recipient five cents—clear evidence that Congress envisioned making stamp use mandatory in the future (it did so in 1855).

5. Have Shipping Fees Gone Up? Comparing 10 Years Ago and Today

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   For example, say you bought ten stamps per month in 2014 for $4.90. That year, you spent $58.80 to mail letters. Fast forward to today, and your annual cost jumps to $87.60 to send those same ...

6. Postage is going up again. You should care, even if you don’t ...

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   But the price of postage is a big deal to millions of businesses and organizations that spend most of the $40.8 billion a year spent on mail, including letters, bulk mailings, junk mail and ...

7. American Letter Mail Company - Wikipedia

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   It cost 18 3/4 cents to send a letter from Boston to New York and 25 cents to send one from Boston to Washington, DC. A letter sent from Boston to Albany, NY written on a 1/4-ounce sheet of paper and carried by the Western Railroad, cost 2/3 as much as the freight charge for carrying a barrel of flour the same distance.