U.S. International

Postal Rates, 1872-1996

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(The second Beecher Book is here!)

by Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz

and Henry W. Beecher

The second volume of the "must have" definitive two-part series concerning U.S. rates is now available. This lavishly illustrated 416-page volume offers an almost complete compendium of US international rates/fees for all mail originating in the US and mailed to other Universal Postal Union (UPU) countries from 1872-1996.

Although the rates are for members of the UPU, many of the rates included here are pre-UPU or special treaty rates for countries that now are UPU members. Every effort has been made to illustrate these rates and fees, including those for a number of recently introduced services such as International Priority Mail and Global Priority Mail.

Of special importance are the extensive airmail letter rate tables. Early airmail rates from the US to foreign lands are extremely complex. We have attempted to make these rates more understandable by giving each country's airmail rates in individual tables for most UPU members, from inception of airmail service to each country until 1946, when these rates simplified markedly.

Other important material is included. A historical perspective of the UPU and its rates and fees is presented as well as James Negus' complete UPU membership listing. There is a large chapter that includes extensive incoming (to the US) rates and fees for UPU members, with surface rates/fees listed from 1879 until 1950 and surface and airmail rates/fees from 1950 until 1971. There is a separate chapter devoted to the incoming and outgoing rates/fees between Canada and the US.

As has been recommended, there is an appendix of abridged and therefore simplified international and domestic tables. These tables are organized by rates and fees used during each bureau issue (e.g., Fourth Bureau issue, the Prexies, the 1954 Liberty series, the Americana series, etc.). By their nature (no more than 2 pages per issue), not all rates and fees are included, but those listed will explain the vast majority of covers one finds.

There are major changes in this international volume compared to the domestic book. Text is now in larger type. The text and tables for each rate or service fee are together (not separated as they are in the domestic book). A stronger binding has been used that will still allow the book to lie open during use. The index is extensive, and care has been taken to cross-reference all countries and entities so that the readers are readily able to identify a country, no matter by what name it is known to them.

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