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Show OM l lllsrAtll MlMl1. (lKMIUI. IUcsh, a .Want post, master, Ima written a vary luterestliu blatory of ial ign staiu In lha Uliltul Hlabs ( oogreaa ilit uuthorlml their uau lu 1317. thnau tlrat laeiied wire llveaid tin ulit atratil-n Thu (Wis ooiitalniij rtralta of I'mi Ulin the II rat imatmaiter gen nl aid I bo tens ut Waihlnton tin. t)it I'mlliot rheea I'OUtlniled In 11 ". until l-il, when tha three cinl r 1 litter atagu w nJoh riiui a new hrths of eleven ll!! rent deuomliia. tloua umo Into ujo. lh.10 utro one, t U11 e, five leu, twelve taeut four, thirty anl ninety c itatain In aldl'ljn tbsre were to carrier aiamps of one cent each Thee con tluutl in uie until 18 Jl. In Ihatyesr anewssrles waalasued. In Into the licit lu of alltnpi look lace, folio i-d by another In ISM, which recalled until bO) Tha near itampi range In denotnlna ll 111 from ona to ninety cents. 1UI tberalaoneformofslninp wblih bars a slit) dollar mark, the lilgbeat Isaurl, aud liaed by iiewspit-ara III ayiug ota( bills. For tho setuu puriioeo there ll alio a l W itmjs an I ona of 1 GO. an 1 varloiia other denomlnatlioi ranging from thot up to Jli Oil rrom HIT lo 1MI only 4 (ttn,ixM tamps were solj. In 18-W UIWMlaW letters ere eeut wllh Amerloan tarn a tlirough the mallr. 1.1-t year It la 11-Ihnated 11-Ihnated that three billion lines of mall went through American oit offlces. l'oatal car Is vera tint lixii'l In May, H;.i. In 1ST4 tsi.rxM on ,tll tinla were used. In IsW asoouoW) w,tre unci, aud for mi II Is estimated that l'JO,i,O0i) iaM will be Ulrl. The government fits postal carls made for S3 ccnta a thou.iiul. Unit nary loataga alarus cost alwnt saveti cents a thousand, all nude I y private firms, rjj nnped a nvelopea vtsro nratlar uJ In ISM. Theru era st preaeul seven dlfTerent sites Inure. Htainped news aj er wrapja re wi re first leuod lii IbM. Duilnt-lailyearajl, isiii.Oi)) of wrsppera anl etaniied envelopes en-velopes were sol I. Ileal lea, there un JW OW.OiiO worth of poslara tanis s-dl lllatlmala.lliatlnthu Unltnl HUtee V2.W Ml"1! la s nl overy year for alagv, Americans ste the great-eat great-eat letter wiltlnit smIo of nijderu tinea. Tlnra are s'.iut fifty billion lects of mall inttter poitol Jrty llirougbout tha whole world, of these Mine billion go through the poalofllciia of the United Mtates Our poit'l 'J-tem 'J-tem Is sail tnaacel any In Ilia woild, lii Ita iIeta.Ua f r bulh public an J I r)ata nerommoilalion. |