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The rates on this postal rate chart, which became effective October 10, 1765, remained
unchanged until the American Revolution. The original rates, expressed in British
currency, were converted by America's Deputy Postmasters General, Benjamin Franklin
and John Foxcroft, to pennyweights and grains of silver so that postage could be
computed in colonial currency. Charts such as this were displayed in local post offices.
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