1945 US Letter Opened By Censor

Hope I am in the correct section. Just posting for others to see, I am pretty sure this is not a rare one.

I like it. It has lots going for it, registered, censored, to a foreign destination with a Prexie. All good stuff to me.

It is an attractive cover, though to make it perfect it would have been best were there a date cancel on the front and not just the back. The censorship cachet and the paper tape are both British empire censors which is what you would expect to see on a cover that was going into Australia. Where ever it entered the mail stream in Australia it was opened, read, and resealed with the tape by an Australian censor.

There is no dated postmark on the front of the cover as it is was against postal regulations at that time to do so. If you will compare to other registered covers of the period you will notice the same.

The cover was "Passed by Censor", i.e. not opened for censorship in the United States. However, it was opened and examined by the Australian censor and resealed with the "Opened by Censor" tape. Nice cover.

But the "passed by censor" is on top of the "Opened by Censor" tape. Seems to be the other way around ...

I also like this cover, and have several others that I posted around here somewhere.

I found a Censor to Australia in this older link

https://goscf.com/t/27000#231963

It shows the city/date on the front, but was mailed earlier, and, of course, from Australia to the US.