I now have a nice image in my mind of a Hungarian circus troupe sending postcards as they travel around the world!
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Are you expecting we go on another forum to see it ...
No, but it was an option!
I was simply short of time before going out. Now I'm back home again.
Here's my earlier posting:
Quote:It's hard to be sure when the original stamp has been covered by the label but I expect that it was not a regular British stamp but one issued by Universal Mail United Kingdom Ltd.
This is a private company which is allowed (for some reason) to sell labels for sale to the public that cover the delivery of tourist postcards to non-UK addresses.
Here's a link to the company's web site:
http://www.universalmail.co.uk/This shows some examples of their stamps. The layout of these seems to fit with what can be seen of the stamp here.
The labels are quite pretty and they do cover the payment of a service (even though nearly all the real work is done by Royal Mail and the official postal service in the destination country).
However, from what I've read delivery can be be very slow indeed.
The labels are not sold by Post Offices but in souvenir shops, usually in popular tourist locations
I suspect the Hungarian address is simply a convenient one for the British company. I believe it's part of an international group so maybe this refers to a shared facility.
For a number of years there was a similarly-named private mail company in New Zealand with a similar logo and style but it's no longer in business.
Posted 06/04/2017 10:45 am
