Text Box: Table XI.--DOMESTIC REGISTRY SERVICE (1) 1855-1955 Dots (...) = Absence of rate.  Dashes (---) = Continuation of rate.
Service 1855 1863 1869 1874 1875 1878 1879 1893 1898 1902 1909 1911 1923 1925
First Class and Airmail: (2)
        No indemnity 0.05 (3) 0.20 (4) 0.15 0.08 0.1 0.10 (5) 0.10 (6) 0.08 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---)
        $10 indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) 0.08 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---)
        $25 indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) 0.08 (---) (---) (---) (---)
        $50 indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.15
        Over $50 indemnity but not over $100 (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) 0.20 0.20
Second Class:
        No indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) 0.10 0.15
        No indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) .10 (5) .10 (6) 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.10 (---) (---) (---)
        $25 indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) 0.10 0.10 0.15
Fourth Class:
        No indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) .10 (6) 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.10 (---) (---) (---)
        Not over $25 indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) .10 (7) (---) (---)
        Not over $50 indemnity (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) .10 (8) .15 (8)
        Over $50 but less than $100 (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) .20 (8) .20 (8)
Text Box: Return Receipts:         Requested at time of mailing showing to whom and when delivered  ........................................................................................................................................................          03                                                                                                                                   
Return Receipt
Text Box: 1.  Fees in addition to regular postage.  Service first established in 1855.  Many of the fee charges listed resulted from PMG orders which are not listed in the     chronology of legislative acts. 2.  From its inception in 1918, registry fees for airmail were the same as first class.   3.  Applicable only to letters of other matter on which letter postage was paid. 4.  Provided that a return receipt from addresses be returned to sender. 5.  In 1878 service extended to third class with proviso that registered first class must be sealed and registered third class must be unsealed. 6.  Registration made available by administrative instruction on first, third, and fourth class with requirement that latter two categories be unsealed  and      and first-class mail be sealed. 7.  In 1913, with establishment of parcel post system and insurance for parcels, the indemnity provided was no longer applicable to fourth-class mail.      However, such matter sealed and bearing first class postage could be registered as first-class matter. 8. This  embraces fourth class if sealed and postage paid at the first-class rates.