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  2. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.

  3. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847.[ 20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.

  4. United States Postal Service - Wikipedia

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    A former United States Postal Service Boeing 727-200 aircraft at Miami International Airport in 1999. The United States Postal Service does not directly own or operate any aircraft or trains, although both were formerly operated. The mail and packages are flown on airlines with which the Postal Service has a contractual agreement.

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

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    Today, the cheapest way to ship a package is via Priority Mail with a flat-rate envelope measuring 12.5 by 9.5 inches or smaller. Mailing that size package at that speed will run $9.85, which is ...

  6. Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States

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    During the first seven weeks of the Civil War, the U.S. Post Office still delivered mail from the seceded states. Mail that was postmarked after the date of a state's admission into the Confederacy through May 31, 1861, and bearing U.S. (Union) postage is deemed to represent 'Confederate State Usage of U.S. Stamps'. i.e., Confederate covers franked with Union stamps. [4]

  7. Dimensional weight - Wikipedia

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    Dimensional weight, also known as volumetric weight, is a pricing technique for commercial freight transport (including courier and postal services ), which uses an estimated weight that is calculated from the length, width and height of a package. The shipping fee is based upon the dimensional weight or the actual weight, whichever is greater.

  8. US Postal Service hikes stamp prices again. Here’s ... - AOL

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    It just got a little more expensive to send mail in Sacramento — and across the U.S. Effective Sunday, the U.S. Postal Service’s first-class mail “forever” stamps — commonly used to mail ...

  9. The US Postal Service wants to hike stamp prices again in ...

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    The US Postal Service filed a notice with its regulators to increase prices on First-Class “Forever” stamps to 73 cents from 68 cents, marking yet another price hike for the financially ...

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