Latest Cover Purchases

Hi to all

These are more of the $2.00 specials.
I purchased the Uganda Independence cover only because it was issued by "Woolworths" it would be interesting to know if this was a common occurrence by Woolworths.
The other one I particularly like is the "Emergency Post". It is interesting that it has an emergency stamp from England and also a normal stamp from Belgium. Did Belgium not recognise the emergency post and place there own stamps on such envelopes?
Regards
Horamakhet

Regarding the Emergency Post it is true that many people and companies set up ways of moving the mail and it was quite legal to do so as the monopoly had been suspended. Most I believe were local deliveries but there were a few "international" ones too. I suspect what happened was that a "Strike Post" company like Johnson Grover had to complete the delivery to Germany after getting the letter as far as Belgium by their own means and cost...then applying the necessary postage to finish the job using the normal postal services.

Why would Kenya be the cancelling country for a Uganda issue.?

If the stamps were purchased in Uganda, then they should be cancelled and mailed from there.

If purchased in Uganda, but taken to a Kenyan post office, why would Kenya cancel another country's stamps?

If purchased and cancelled in Kenya, how could Kenya get another country's stamps for sale on teh day of issue?

Obviously, I must be missing something. Please inform me.

Could it be that the stamps were valid in each of the three formerly joined countries... Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika ???

Hi to all

Sorry I left the "Woolsworth cover out accidently.
Maybe scotzm is right?
This one is also postmark Nairobi.
Horamakhet

What you have with the Uganda FDC is very interesting, Horamkhet.
I'd love to find out if someone managed to get the FDCs postmarked in all THREE countries of the former K-U-T in 1962!! Perhaps not of great value but of great philatelic interest. Certainly worth investigating anyway. Keep looking for the "set" of three (if it exists) and you will have something special in my opinion.