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- noun Plural form of
postage .
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Examples
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Tipsy Fairy maybe yoo hafta drink some more B4 yoo reed mai postages ?
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The coasting or internal postages of Hindostan would certainly be greatly increased.
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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Never, according to the statement of Earl Russell, did he pass a week without writing to her _twice_, except during his absence in Bermuda, when franks were not to be obtained, and postages were costly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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On newspaper postages, fifty per cent, on all sums, large or small.
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_ Even this sum, which certainly by no means includes every letter to and from the places mentioned, would, under the arrangements proposed, be doubled, independently of all the postages which would be obtained from the New
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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Besides the certain great increase in all the external postages in these countries and colonies and places, the internal and coasting postages in these places will be augmented to a very great extent.
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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Taking the outward postages at present to be, to all the places mentioned, 100,000_l. _ -- inwards as much, 200,000_l. _ -- there may be added, Additions 100,000_l. _; (p. 054)
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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To all these sums must be added a considerable sum in postages, which would be annually drawn from the correspondence between all parts (p. 117) of the United States, and Maranham, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro,
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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The revenue from the outward postages to the British West Indian Colonies, Honduras excepted, is inserted in the Appendix from official authority.
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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The postages derived at present from the packet intercourse with the whole Western World is taken at 200,000_l. _ outwards and inwards.
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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