US Postage_palestine Usage

Here is a postal stationery item (US postal card _ Scotts UY-12r).
Item postmarked Jerusalem, Palestine 1927, send to Chicago, USA without any postage due requested.

It was a note to the General Isreal Orphans Home for Girls from the bank who just used a prepaid double postal card with reply card attached. Either someone at the US PO took pity on them, or it was just missed in the system?

Interesting usage if nothing else...

Under the UPU agreement regarding international postal reply cards, the two separate but attached postal cards were each valid for postage at the standard UPU international postal card rate.

To buy the US international reply card you have pictured, first issued on February 1, 1926, the purchaser paid six cents — three for the outbound message and three to prepay the reply.

It appears the purchaser sent a $5 remittance on the message card and mailed them both, folded but still attached.

The recipient in Jerusulem severed the unused reply card, acknowledged receipt of the remittance on it, and mailed it back at the same rate without needing to affix additional postage.

Thanks, I should have known that...

I had to look it up, just to be sure!

Philately at work