Deseret Evening News | 1908-06-03 | Page 1 | Day of Cheaper Postage is Near

nAY DAY OF POSTAGE IS NEAR P M Gen Mayer Announces An Agreement With Great Britain For Letter Leter Rate of Two Cents BECOMES EFFECTIVE OCT 1 1 1 nC 11 In Jn In l be bc I it floom To ro 1 Citizens Juns Gen General General eral Meyer le d today that on an bind been heen reached with the hal m t l girr o if two cents an lw en thlU the Ced and Or Gr Ireland to to b come operative Octo br bk I 1908 Ito He stated further that the h Postmaster r general gentral S Sydney Wil making a hike nent ment 10 0 the house ho se o today The muter matter or eC penny us I it Is cal called d In l England has been under con tor Or some time and ns aim tar for forback back os as lust lost Jil July President Hoo approved lr course in urging n a union wIth England On Ol Oct 1 I Oj tile Iho Universal Postal union whIch governs tIm Iho international postal I t of the various countries reduced the rate rale or of betters hostage from five centa cen t a I halt half ounce lint t to 10 five cents tor or thO the first unlace and amI ventS for tor each addItional ounce which Is the present plesent rile rate between the united States and Great wih with which we hov have dl communication but on mall LII whIch we to 10 p pa charge t to countries through It ORSel asSeM lit lt Under hue articles of i Ih union on alty two 0 states call turin form Il union Ex x I pIes or of restrIcted ore are those I Inow now which I a two cent nn an ounce letter leUer rate Ihl the United Sil Suites 1111 t tin the United States and Panama amid the UnIted States and Meyer that thIs reduction II In the ral rate of post postage Ig age to 10 the tho United In increase him will result nu an II wi it hll biaS been found hint It reduction of the tho letter rate suled fInally In tim lie 11 thou I nl I II iI 11 Is ho also ot the opinion that I a mayer post postage ago age wil will lead to 10 n a freer commercial In Intercourse Intercourse Mn h he says arc Ing hair sales In J re rely to 10 a grf greult extent upon 11 the for and ot of trade Fur For timer Iho he this wi alil hI a great boon to to our adopted and lucre hee those thoRO or itt mans I as asit It will enable to ho ill tip or 1 wih theIr relatives aud In lie old at Iloe tlc intes