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Modern Hong Kong "Insufficient Postage" Markings

 
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Nells250
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Posted 04/26/2011   4:43 pm  Show Profile Check Nells250's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add Nells250 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi all

Today I got a rather crummy postcard via Postcrossing. It is an advertising card from Hong Kong. What saves it for me are the markings.



Not only did the sender send me a cheap card, but they didn't even use Air Mail postage. Thing is... how does mail from Hong Kong get to the USA via "surface mail"?
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rod222
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Posted 04/27/2011   04:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You have to be forgiving sometimes Nells,
postcrossing people are not philatelists, in the main.
It may be a young lad or gal, sending the card.

That aside I think you have a cracker postcard there,
insufficient postage, air mail marker monkey cross,
quite an unusual package.
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Puzzler
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Quote:
how does mail from Hong Kong get to the USA via "surface mail"?


By ship along with regular parcels. Sea-Mail the Aussies call it. This one would be the slow boat from China. Is the postmark Feb 16, 2011 ? Took two months?

Indeed nice markings. Makes it unique. Be better with a nice cat in a hexagon or something but still . . .
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smauggie
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Makes me want to join up, just for the odd, desirable goof-up like that one.
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Nells250
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Posted 04/27/2011   09:58 am  Show Profile Check Nells250's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Nells250 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Took a peek... the postcard was marked online as being sent on February 11, 2011. Stupid me didn't even think to look into that!

I wonder how much mail in modern times hitches a ride on a boat? And on what type of boat/ship?

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smauggie
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Well you know if you get any ugly old postcards like that I can trade you a pretty, clean foreign postcard to replace it. ;o)
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