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Here are a few interesting things I have found in a couple of recently received lots of modern US material> Here is a great, and legit, overseas usage of the 1/2c Ben Franklin Liberty Series stamp. It is a wrapper mailed from NY, addressed to Germany. The date on the other side of the wrapper is Feb. 7, 1957. From Nov. 1, 1953 to Aug. 1, 1958, the foreign printed matter rate was 2c for the first 2 ounces and 1 1/2c for each additional 2 ounces. The postage on this wrapper, which enclosed a copy of the Latvian newspaper Laiks, paid the printed matter rate for an article weighing between 2 ounces and 4 ounces. Here is a great modern advertising cover. It is a thin cardboard container, mailed from St. Petersburg, FL to Germany on June 16, 1992, franked with the 50c Quimby airmail and the 45c Harvey Cushing definitive. The 95c postage paid the 1 ounce foreign airmail rate. Here is a post card sent from Phoeniz, AZ to Germany on Oct. 29, 1997. The card, sent by the Arizona Film Commission to promote the filming of movies in Arizona, is franked with two 32c Movie Monster commems. The international airmail post card rate was 50c at that time, but the card was treated as a letter because it exceeded UPU guidelines for post cards. The international letter rate at the time was 60c for 1/2 ounce, so the card was overpaid only by 4c. Here is a cover sent from Tampa, Fla to Germany on April 2, 1991. The cover is franked with the F rate flag stamp (Scott 2522) and the 4c "makeup" stamp for the F rate (intended to be used with 25c stamps to pay the domestic 1st class F rate) (29c). As such, it was underfranked by 17c. The PO was no doubt mesmerized by the Doonesbury stamps on the front (there are more on the reverse). Easily my favorite cover out of the two lots. Here is cover mailed from Greensboro, NC in July of 1997 to Germany. It is franked with a plate number strip of 5 of the 20c Cog Railway coil definitive (issued in 1995). Appears to be completely non-philatelic. The $1 postage pays the 1 ounce foreign airmail rate. This is one I'll hang on to for 30 years. Can't imagine that there are very many non-philatelic covers with a plate # strip of 5 of this stamp. Finally, here is an interesting item I have not seen before. It is a Notice of Attempt to Deliver Mail. The notice tells the recipient that the PO is holding a piece of mail for pickup, because the addressee was not home when the PO tried to deliver the piece of mail in question, and further indicates that there is postage due of 28c. When the addresse brought the card to the PO, the PO affixed 28c in postage (20c Marshall from Great Americans Series and 8c Flag over White House definitive) and canceled them (July 1, 1971). I have not seen postage due (whether paid with postage due stamps or with regular stamps) affixed to this type of a card before. Does anyone out there have any additional information or comments?
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on Apr-07-07
at 07:08:18 PDT
I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
on Apr-04-07
at 14:23:01 PDT
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