From Nicolayevsk to St.Petersburg the charges are twenty-five copecks (cents) a pound, the distance being seven thousand miles.

It gives receipts for the articles, and will insure them at a charge of two per cent.

on their value.
Goods of any kind can be sent by post through Russia just as by express in America.

Captain Lund sent a package containing fifty sable skins to his brother in Cronstadt, and another with a silk dress pattern to a lady in St.Petersburg.In the mail on the Ingodah there were twelve hundred pounds of sable fur sent by Mr.Chase to his agent in St.Petersburg.Money to any amount can be remitted, and its delivery insured.

I have known twenty thousand roubles sent on a single order.
Parcels for transportation by post must be carefully and securely packed.