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Mail and Express Rates and Data 
Domestic Rates of Postage 
First Class Matter. Letters and other first class matter (except 
drop letters), three cents for eacli ounce or fraction of an ounce. Drop 
letters, two cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce. A “drop” 
letter is one that is mailed for delivery from the post office at which it 
is posted or, in other words, which is addressed for local delivery by 
tlie ])ost office at which it is mailed. For instance, the district of the 
New York, N. Y., Post Office embraces the Boroughs of Manhattan 
and tlie Bronx, also Pelham and Pelham Manor; all letters mailed within 
that district for delivery therein will he sidiject to the rate of two 
cents an ounce. There is no drop rate on any matter except letters. 
Letters, addressed to other post offices in the United States (in- 
cluding Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands of the United 
States), the Possessions of the F^nited States (Canal Zone, Philippines, 
Guam and Tutuila, Shanghai City (China), U. S. Expeditionary Forces 
in Europe, U. S. Naval Vessels, U. S. Naval Hospital at Yokohama, 
,Iaj)an, or any other destinations to which the domestic postage rates 
a])ply, also other first class matter addressed to any destination to 
wdiieii the domestic rates apply, will be subject to the rate of three 
cents an'ounce. 
Note. — All mail for the U. S. Expeditionary Forces in Europe is 
subject to domestic rates; letters for such forces will he subject to the 
rate of three cents an ounce. 
l.etters, addressed for delivery jn the following-named foreign coun- 
tries, will also be subject to the rate of three cents an ounce, instead 
of two cents an ounce as at present: Bahamas (including Fortune 
Island and Inagua), Canada, Cuba, Barbados, British Guiana, British 
Honduras, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies (including Aruba, 
Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius and tlie Dutch part of St. Mar- 
tin), England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Leeward Islands, Mexico, New- 
foundland, New Zealand, Panama and Shanghai City (China). 
Note. — The postage rate on letters for foreign countries other than 
tliose named in the preceding paragraph remains as at present, five 
cents for the first ounce or fraction thereof and three cents for each 
additional ounce or fraction thereof. 
Postal cards, under the regulations governing first class mail, will 
be subject to two cents postage, regardless of whether, they bear writ- 
ten, typewritten or printed messages. Postal cards are cards which are 
issued hy the Government and sold by the Post Office Department. 
The one-cent postal cards, when addressed to the destinations named 
in the preceding paragraph, must have a one-cent postage stamp affixed 
to them in addition to the one-cent stamp which is printed on such 
cards. Printed postal cards, or those which bear no more writing (or 
typewriting) than is permitted on printed matter, are mailable to all 
foreign countries as “prints” for one cent each. 
Post cards or private mailing cards, which include all cards not 
exceeding in size approximately 3 9-lG by 5 9-16 inches nor less than 
a]i)iroximately 2 3-4 by 4 inches, will be subject to two cents postage each. 
