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Dashes (---) = Continuance of rate.
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Year Letters 9 Carrier Office Non Carrier Office Postal Cards Ship and Steamboat 10
11 1863 3 cents per 1/2 ounce..... 2 cents per 1/2 ounce.................... ... ... Double regular rate
1865 .....do.....................................                     11... 1 cent each 12 ...
13 1872 .....do.....................................                     11... 1 cent per 1/2 ounce 1 cent each
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Year Letters 14     Postal cards Post cards Business reply cards and letters
  (non-local) Carrier office Noncarrier office   (private mailing)  
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16 1879 3 cents per 1/2 ounce............... 2 cents per 1/2 ounce.................... 1 cents per 1/2 ounce....................... 1 cents each.................................. ... ...
1883 2 cents per 1/2 ounce.............. .....do.................................................... .....do...................................................... .....do................................................ ... ...
1885 2 cents per ounce..................... 2 cents per ounce......................... 1 cent per ounce............................... .....do............................................... ... ...
1898 .....do.............................................. ......do.................................................. .....do..................................................... .....do............................................... 1 cents each.................................................... ...
1917 3 cents per ounce.................... ......do.................................................. 2 cents per ounce.......................... 2 cents each................................ 2 cents each................................................... ...
1919 2 cents per ounce.................... ......do.................................................. 1 cents per ounce........................... 1 cent each................................... 1 cents each................................................... ...
1925 .....do.............................................. ......do.................................................. ......do.................................................. ......do.................................................. 2 cents each..................................................
1928 .....do.............................................. ......do.................................................. ......do.................................................. ......do.................................................. 1 cent each...................................................... 2 cents each plus regular postage
collected on delivery (reduced to
1 cent plus regular postage Oct.
1, 1928).
1932 3  cents per ounce.................... 3 cents per ounce........................... .....do...................................................... .....do...................................................... .....do......................................................         Do.
1933 .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do...................................................... .....do...................................................... .....do......................................................         Do.
17 1940 .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do...............................................         Do.
1944 .....do............................................... 3 cents per ounce 18 .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do...............................................         Do.
1952 .....do............................................... .....do............................................... 2 cents per ounce 2 cents each 2 cents each  19....................................         Do.
1955 .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do............................................... .....do...............................................         Do.