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I don't know what the airmail postal rate was in June 1991, so I have no idea what the franking should have been. But what difference does it make?
Assuming the HKPO applied the handstamp, was it to inform the recipient that the sender was paying too much and thus the sender should be informed about the overpayment, for future reference?
It seems a bit bizarre to me. Has anyone seen a marking like this?
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Have not seen such an instance, but that is a nice cover!
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Thank you Anglophile for your reply. Your suggestion seems the most logical and indeed most probable explanation.
Postage overpayment must surely have occurred with some frequency, yet this is the first instance of such an 'instructional marking' I have ever seen.
I'll have to dig through my reference books to see if this has been recorded.
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Certainly disapproval at George Tchea using an official letter to Douglas Hurd to get a philatelic cover cancelled!
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"... Could it be to alert the English post office that the computation of any applicable transfer payment owed from Hong Kong must exclude the overage? (Or to alert the HKPO not to pay too much to England) ..."
But was this computation done piece-by-piece?
It is postmarked 1991, not 1891, and I would think that the HK=UK traffic would have been reconciled by the pound (or ton), not by the piece ... but I never worked in a foreign mail receiving station.
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How about "Refund due" or "Refund contained within" as the opposite of "Postage Due?"
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We all know what postage due means but what on earth is the purpose of this 'POSTAGE IN EXCESS' cachet?
I don't know what the airmail postal rate was in June 1991, so I have no idea what the franking should have been. But what difference does it make?
Assuming the HKPO applied the handstamp, was it to inform the recipient that the sender was paying too much and thus the sender should be informed about the overpayment, for future reference?
It seems a bit bizarre to me. Has anyone seen a marking like this?
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re: What's the opposite of 'postage due' ?
Have not seen such an instance, but that is a nice cover!
-Steve
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re: What's the opposite of 'postage due' ?
Thank you Anglophile for your reply. Your suggestion seems the most logical and indeed most probable explanation.
Postage overpayment must surely have occurred with some frequency, yet this is the first instance of such an 'instructional marking' I have ever seen.
I'll have to dig through my reference books to see if this has been recorded.
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re: What's the opposite of 'postage due' ?
Certainly disapproval at George Tchea using an official letter to Douglas Hurd to get a philatelic cover cancelled!
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re: What's the opposite of 'postage due' ?
"... Could it be to alert the English post office that the computation of any applicable transfer payment owed from Hong Kong must exclude the overage? (Or to alert the HKPO not to pay too much to England) ..."
But was this computation done piece-by-piece?
It is postmarked 1991, not 1891, and I would think that the HK=UK traffic would have been reconciled by the pound (or ton), not by the piece ... but I never worked in a foreign mail receiving station.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
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re: What's the opposite of 'postage due' ?
How about "Refund due" or "Refund contained within" as the opposite of "Postage Due?"
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