Postage Rates for Periodicals: A Narrative History

Postage Rates for Periodicals: A Narrative History ... or 1.5 cents (for more than 100 miles) (1 Stat. 238). Postage for letters, by contrast, cost at least 6 to 25 cents, depending on distance traveled. The 1792 law also allowed newspaper printers to send each other newspapers for free, facilitating the spread of national and foreign news ... ................
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