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Usage Help On A Cover: Prexies + Certified Mail

 
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Posted 02/14/2025   8:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Philazilla to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I like this cover because of the Liberty-era certified mail stamp and the 1¢ prexie coils. I'm stuck on the usage though.

1955 Domestic usage.

The 15¢ certified mail stamp obviously covered the 15¢ certified mail service. That leaves 7¢.

The 1st class rate was 3¢. That leaves 4¢ to explain:

An extra ounce would only cost 3¢ which would leave a 1¢ overpayment - I do not think likely, but I do not have a better explanation.

Return receipt cost 7¢, so that probably isn't it.

Airmail was 6¢ so help there - also no indication that this was sent by airmail.

There are no markings on the back.

What does anyone think?



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Posted 02/15/2025   12:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
First impressions ... Are there stamp(s) missing?
Note the way the certified stamp and the leftmost coil are cancelled with a mute device. Then note the similar small black mark on the top of the certified stub in addition to the blank spacing above it.
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Posted 02/15/2025   1:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Philazilla to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That "black mark" on the certified mail label was a piece of fuzz that fell off as I took a closer look. I do not see any evidence of stamps that have come off, but that thought did cross my mind. If stamps have come off this cover, they came off very cleanly from a spot where a cancellation did not tie them to the cover while the ones remaining stayed securely affixed.
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Interesting stamp uses, possibly starting with someone in a hurry and just missed fact that they left an additional 1c coil attached (if 2 oz, then 6 coils needed). June 1955 was first month of Certified service, using a stamp ordinarily at the time only sitting in post offices, not business offices until personnel were aware of new service and went to trouble to buy them & keep them in the office. Just an odd mix with the 1c Coil format. (Penny postcard had ended several years earlier.) Were the 1c stamps from a vending machine? etc etc. If a collector had a part roll, and noticed the ink "line" in the coil (a "line pair" starts the strip of 5 at time) and didn't want to separate them, but if they had "need 6" on the mind I don't see how keeping the line pair intact would still lead to an extra 1c put on the cover.
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