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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 361191, member: 66&quot;]The postage rates dropped because improved roads and rail made the transportation of mail easier faster and cheaper.&nbsp; Think of it this way, imagine what the postal rates would bee today if for some reason we didn&#039;t have the interstate highway system or airplanes.&nbsp; Then what would happen to those high rates if the highways and air came back into use.&nbsp; Well that is basically what happened back in the nineteenth century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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