4 sgr. D 1-1/2 sgr. E
3-6 | 3kr. = 10-2/7 pf. | 3 sgr. 2-1/4 sgr.
6-12 | 4 kr. = 1 sgr. 1-5/7 pf. | 4-1/2 sgr. 3 sgr.
12-18 | 6kr. = 1 sgr. 8-4/7 pf. | 6 sgr. 3-3/4 sgr.
18-24 | 8kr. = 2 sgr. 3-3/7 pf. | 7-1/2 sgr. 4-1/2 sgr.
24-30 | 10 kr. = 2 sgr. 10-2/7 pf. | 7-1/2 sgr. 4-1/2 sgr.
30-36 | 12 kr. = 3 sgr. 5-1/7 pf. | 9 sgr. 6 sgr.
36-42 | 14 kr. = 4 sgr. | 10-1/2 sgr. 6 sgr.
42-48 | 16 kr. = 4 sgr. 6-6/7 pf. | 10-1/2 sgr. 6 sgr.
48-54 | 18 kr. = 5 sgr. 1-5/7 pf. | 12 sgr. 7-1/2 sgr.
54-60 | 20 kr. = 5 sgr. 8-4/7 pf. | 12 sgr. 7-1/2 sgr.
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D: Rates established 18th December 1824.

E: Rates established 1st October 1844.--Ibid., pp. 9 and 39.

[726] K. A. H. Schmid, _Zur Geschichte der Briefporto-Reform in
Deutschland_, Jena, 1864, p. 36.

[727] Oskar Grosse, _Die Beseitigung des Thurn und Taxis'schen
Postwesens in Deutschland_, pp. 98-9.

[728] Ibid., p. 47.

[729] Ibid., p. 66.

[730] The conditions were in many respects similar to those obtaining in
the United States. _Vide supra_, p. 191.

[731] "In England you have thickly congested rural districts, large
towns every few miles, and tremendous cities: in Canada you have a
population of less than 8,000,000 spread over a vast area, with few
cities or large towns, and with vast spaces that must be traversed where
no population exists.... We are giving, as compared with England, a flat
rate in an area twice as great as Britain gives parcel post, and where
all the conditions are much less favourable."--Hon. L. Pelletier, _Parl.
Debates, Canada_ (_Commons_), 4th June 1913.

[732] _Canada Official Postal Guide_, 1917, pp. 27-8.

[733] Such improvements as the introduction of letter-cards, reply-paid
postcards, etc., afford conveniences to the public, but they have little
bearing on general questions of rates of charge. The number of such
articles passing by post is insignificant in comparison with the total
postal traffic.

[734] Thus, in the United Kingdom, the number of letters registered in
1913-14 was .68 per cent. of the total number posted. The total cost of
the supplemental services, including registration, insurance, and
express delivery, was in 1913-14 only about a million, out of a total
cost for all