Tag: Postage Due Covers

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Postal History Collecting – USA Returned For Additional Postage

27 May 2022

Here are a couple of interesting variants on the more traditionally collected area of postage due mail. Return to sender for additional postage The two covers shown below, dating some 12 years apart stem from the options made available to the USPS staff regarding how they treat under franked mail. Normally when items are sent…

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Postal History Collecting – GB 1971 Insufficiently Prepaid

13 April 2022

Craig Taylor

Despite Great Britain moving to decimal currency on the 15th February 1971, pre-decimal stamps (from George V Onwards) remained postally valid. This validity ended on the 29th of February 1972 and in the interim caused no end of confusion. This resulted in a plethora of underpaid mail and is an interesting and currently inexpensive collecting…