How To Tell When Your Letters Written

A Tool For Genealogists

Do you have a stash of old family letters with blurred unreadable postmarks and no dates inside?  These postal rate changes will help a little on giving you an idea of approximately what time the letter was written. 

 
July 1, 1885 2 cents
November 3, 1917 3 cents
July 1, 1919 2 cents
July 6, 1932 3 cents
August 1, 1958 4 cents
January 7, 1963 5 cents
May 16, 1971 8 cents
March 2, 1974 10 cents

 
 
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