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Herr T ! I wonder why they hit Luckies with so much dues..it was a 4 cent postage paid envelope ??????  |
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The extra would have paid postage for 15 more envelopes! I should go find some precancel postage dues I have for the festival. Maybe tonite I can do some scanning and will remember. |
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Stamperdude is correct. The practice was to add up the postage due for all the business reply mail and then paste all the stamps on one piece. |
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Ok thanks, I learned...now that there are no postage dues..i never get anything returned for insufficent postage..i guess they just let it through ! |
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Great post Tom. Modern miracle snake oil. I do like precancels with the double line, electro lines is the correct term (maybe). |
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Wow, first time I had seen a form letter for the postage due. For $11.00 that had to be a very large package as back in 1933 quite a sizable weight could be shipped for that amount. Thank you for sharing. |
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This 1898 soldier's letter has a multicolor Spanish-American War patriotic cachet with caption "Remember the Maine. For Humanity, Country and Right." It was sent from Washington, D.C. without postage and assessed 2c postage due in Rochester, N.Y.    The 3rd Regiment Infantry New York Volunteers never saw combat. They proceeded home from Camp Alger, Virginia after a series of marches and mustered out completely by December 10th, 1898. |
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 Here is a 1924 cover sent from Stützerbach, Germany to the Industrial & Scientific Instrument Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it was assessed 14 cents postage due, and precanceled stamps affixed.   The German stamp was canceled with an interesting pictorial cancel showing a piece of chemical glassware (a condenser).  |
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I am really beginning to like precanceled postage dues. I received a letter the other day marked postage due but I guess they expect me to go to the post office to pay it and bring the envelope with me for proof since it was left in my mailbox at my home. LOL |
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Does anyone know why Germany has no postage due stamps ? That's an excellent question Bob. I've never thought about it. Maybe it's a cultural thing. Germans have long been known for Their precise efficiency. Maybe it would just never to occur to them to put insufficient postage on a letter. Drudenfus, do you know the answer? I'd be really interested in finding out. |
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I know that in some countries that has no postage due stamps..they usually just return the letter to the sender |
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