This 1946 cover could have been sent as second step registry and single weight air, but the size of the envelope and the fact that it has strapping tape on the back holding it shut leads me to believe that it was sent at first step registry, twenty cents, and double airmail, ten cents.

The minimum fee for registry service was twenty cents from March 26, 1944 until January 1, 1949. Return reciept service was four cents during the same period.

This cover paid double weight postage of six cents, a registry fee of twenty cents, and a return receipt fee of four cents in 1947.

This double weight cover was sent registered, return receipt requested within San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1947. As San Juan would have been a carrier post office there was no drop letter rate, and full six cents postage would have been charged.

This cover was sent in 1940. The only logical rating is nine cents triple weight, second step registry for eighteen cents, and return receipt fee, three cents.

This is a complete package wrapper used by a soldier serving in Algeria to send a watch back to the states in 1943. At fifteen cents for $50 insurance and five times the first class weight at three cents per ounce, the postage and fee come to thirty cents. Incidentally, first class mail would not have been free for sending mail other than letters or postcards.

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