Unusal Guatemala Postal Tax Stamps

You don't see them like this very often!

An intriguing concoction! I'd love to have seen this on the original document.

Are they bisected ? Its difficult to tell from the picture.

This is a strip of 6 bisected Postal tax stamps all still attached.

I have many Guatemala covers with bisects..but none are postal tax stamps...i always imagined they had enough of them that they did not have to bi sect.

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I'm gonna take a wild guess that, rather than cut the stamps one-by-one, a clever time-optimizing clerk converted an entire sheet (or large block) of single-centavos into bisects.

Enter The Fickle Finger of Fate: When that unit ran out of single-centavos, what were they to do but use multiples of the bisects?

Of course, another explanation is that an auditor or manager noticed this bit of threatening individual initiative and, NIH, ordered the pre-bisects to be used en masse to be rid of them as quickly as possible.

"The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe."

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey