Any Interest In World Postal Stationery?

Hi,

This Australian postcard was certified:



It was postmarked 20 APR 1982, one day after the domestic rate increase from 24 cents to 27 cents. There isn't any postage due marking on the postcard. The stamps used include a 2 cents Sturt's Desert Rose coil and a 60 cents Royal Wedding issue. The 22 cents postcard has a view of Perth at night.

Best wishes,
AndrewG

Not every day I see a postal card sent by Registered Mail.



The First Mechanical Agrarian Five Year Plan ... those Commies really loved their tractors!



Q/ What was so important that the postcard was sent Registered Mail?

A/ https://goscf.com/t/45777

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Here's another favorite -- although a bizarre design choice to put red ink on blue paper. I actually had to lighten it up slightly to make it more visible.

ikeyPikey:

Q/ What was so important that the postcard was sent Registered Mail?


The Hngarian postal cards were rather flimsy. Since this is going to Scott Pubs, perhaps the sender wanted it to get there in better shape. Registered mail was handled with lot more care (then) than regular mail. That would be my guess.

Once you add the registry fees, the cost advantage of a (flimsy) postal card disappears ... so why not send a letter? My guess is that a letter would have been opened by the censors, whereas the postal card could at least arrive looking unmolested.

Once you are adding all that postage, why not add it to a (less-flimsy) post card?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Just acquired this on ebay...



Quite happy with it.

Regards,
Stampalotapus

Stampalotapus: Nice clean copy! Congratulations.

Here's another couple paired postcards from Nicaragua, one for use domestically, the other for international mailing. Typically, one card of the pair is defined as the reply card, but I don't see any differences.

Registered postcards aren't all that uncommon from the Indian State of Jaipur, like this one:



(Deschl C23 with SG 32 paying the registration rate)

When a loan was overdue, the moneylenders would send out a registered postcard, to remind the borrower that the money was due. This served a double purpose: it made sure the card reached the recipient, and it piqued the interest of the village postman, who could be relied on to read the contents, and spread the good word on his rounds ...

{quote]... Typically, one card of the pair is defined as the reply card, but I don't see any differences ...[/quote]

Interesting.

For a least a half-century, American message/reply pairs have been printed, like the Roman god Janus or the Great Seal of Grand Fenwick, with the two cards (when laid flat) facing in 'opposite' directions.

Thus, when the message card is addressed & the double card is folded, the reply card indicia faces inwards (protecting it from errant cancellation) and the reply card can be pre-addressed (without encouraging mis-delivery).

Forgive the Ameri-centric PoV, but ...

Q/ Has anybody got a checklist of more of these before-they-knew-better message/reply cards?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

As you might have noticed on my UPU card thread, Honduras also tried back-to-back pairing. They, however, did differentiate "message" and "reply" on the cards. One consideration in printing the cards this way would have been cost. This format only required one print run, while front-to-back pairs had to be flipped and printed in a second run.

Argentina 1894 entire with black overprint defacing the value. I believe they were used for official business.

Yes those are Argentina official business envelopes. Appearantly any B-1 through B-6A were blacked out officially when used (or at least Higgins & Gage makes that note), LAter envelopes were also marked out but in a crisscross pattern in blue ink. I had neer actually seen one. Thanks for sharing.

I have a Cut Postal Card which has me puzzled, no country listed, across the top it looks like STADT and across the bottom I make out VERKEHR, this is brown on salmon

Thank you for any help

Seems to be a Germany local package delivery stamp. The company name is "[something] Packetfahrt - A-G." I don't know enough about these locals to provide any more info. I find them interesting though.

Robert

Edit: Could the [something] be "Berl."(i.e., Berlin)?