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Evening, all. Any modern airmail collectors about? I recently bought a couple of very philatelic covers supposedly sent by airmail from Yangon, Myanmar, to Bangkok, which are well plastered with cachets (sorry, handstamps in US speak) relating to the Bangkok 2007 show. These are postmarked, like other similar covers I've seen from the same producer / seller, at the same post office on the same date. But the delivery marks are either absent or look rather neatly struck, as if by favour. One of my covers is paid at the right overseas airmail rate, but the other is paid only at the internal inland basic letter rate, which is suspicious. On enquiring with the seller, I was told that this was carried by "co mail". When I ssked what that meant, I was told that these covers were carried by a crew member or by a passenger. I* guess the passenger here was himself! Do others recognise this term? Doesn't it make a bit of a nonsense of what an air mail cover should be, i.e. carried in a mail bag by the airline under a contract to carry mail? And how common is this "co mail" practice? Comments welcome ... Richard W.
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