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The ship fee, including the ship rate on letters for delivery at the port of entry, were on a per letter basis, rather than weight. The United States issued its first postage stamps in 1847. Before that time, the letters' rates, dates, and origins were written by hand or sometimes in combination with a handstamp device. [1]
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The series ended in 1922 when a messenger riding a motorcycle was shown, replaced by a truck in 1925. In the following years the truck and motorcycle pictures reappeared as rates changed and various color, printing and perforation varieties were created. [5] Finally in 1954 a design featuring hands passing a letter went into use.
The rate increase, to thirteen cents (US$0.13), occurred just after Christmas. The United States also issued stamps with letter denomination, beginning from A , B , etc., during postal rate changes .
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For some forty years, the price of a stamp for a letter weighing less than 20 grams remained stable, equivalent to 60 and 70 euro cents in 2022. During the 1970s, the domestic rate for a 20-gram letter rose from 80 centimes to 1.40 francs in 1980. Between 1983 and 2017, the priority rate increased by 3.06% per year.