The Twenty-four-cent Prexie
Multiple rates
A letter sent from Hawaii to the mainland for four times the six-cent military concession airmail rate in 1943.
Although this cover specifies that the contents are printed matter, twenty-four cents was sufficient to mail two to three pounds of bound printed matter to zone 8 in 1941. Since it has a first class cancel, it is more likely that it was sent first class and weighed between seven and eight ounces.
A package wrapper sent at four times the airmail rate to Canada, which was six cents per ounce from January 1, 1949 until August 1, 1938. The package was sent in 1952. Though it was marked as an eight ounce merchant's packet, there were no special air rates to Canada for other articles at the time.
