PENNY POSTAGE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 285, 17 November 1916, Page 2

PENNY POSTAGE.

FROM THE UNITED STATES. San Francisco. Oct. 14. A telegram from Washington to San Francisco on October 17th stated that the U.S. Government postal officials had held a convention on the subject of international postage charges, and has arrived at the conclusion of providing for a two-cent letter rate between the United States and New Zealand. This announcement which incidently mentioned that the Dominion of New Zealand was 7,000 miles from the eastern coast of the United States, has been received with general satisfaction throughout America, as it has long been regarded as a postal anomaly that New Zealand should have the advantage of being able to write to America for the trifling sum of a penny stamp, whereas Americans were charged five cents, or two and a half times the rate from New Zealand. It is hoped that the arrangements will shortly be extended to include the Commonwealth of Australia. Advocates of the penny postage declare that the reduction of postage scales to New Zealand will result in a greatly increased volume of mail being carried from San Francisco to Wellington for distribution to various ports of New Zealand.