The Thirty-cent Prexie
Multiple weight use
The airmail rate per half-ounce to and from military personnel stationed outside the continental United States was six cents from December 25, 1941 to October 1, 1946.
This envelope was mailed from an APO in Hawaii in 1944, and must have weighed between two and two-and-one-half ounces to require thirty cents postage.
The airmail rate was six cents per ounce from July 1, 1934 to March 26, 1944 and again from January 1, 1949 to August 1, 1958.
The contents of this package apparently weighed between four and five ounces to require thirty cents in postage. It was mailed from an APO, but after the six-cent concession rate had ended in 1946, so it would have been mailed under the second six cents per ounce general airmail period.
The airmail rate to most of Europe was fifteen cents per half ounce from November 1, 1946 until May 1, 1967.
This cover was sent to England at double weight in 1956.
The airmail rate to Mexico was ten cents per half ounce from December 1, 1932 until June 11, 1945. This cover was sent triple weight in 1945.
The airmail rate to Venezuela was fifteen cents from April 1, 1945 to November 1, 1946. The cover is franked for double weight, mailed March of 1946.
The airmail rate to Peru was also fifteen cents per half-ounce from April 1, 1945 to November 1, 1946. This sender paid double weight on April 15, 1945.
The airmail rate to Newfoundland, sent via FAM or British Air, was fifteen cents from May 1, 1942 to November 1, 1946. This cover was double weight, sent in June of 1944.
The airmail rate to Panama was fifteen cents from December 1, 1945 to November 1, 1946. Double weight, mailed in 1940.
The airmail rate to Costa Rica was ten cents from April 1, 1945 to July 1, 1961. This cover went triple weight in June of 1945, from the best that can be seen. If the year date is actually 1943 it went double rate, as the postage per half ounce was fifteen cents from December 1, 1937 to April 1, 1945.
The half-ounce airmail rate to Martinique was fifteen cents from December 1, 1937 to April 1, 1945. This cover went double rate in 1941.
Part of a package wrapper paying ten times the first class surface rate.
