U. S.-Mexico Special Delivery
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R. B. Preston
advises that on a recent visit
to Mexico he sent home several letters franked with Mexican stamps and
a U. S. Special Delivery stamp to his wife in New England.
Thus he
acquired a number of interesting covers with mixed franking.
Sometimes
the Mexican post office cancelled all the stamps; on others they
ignored
the U. S. stamp, but in all cases his U. S. home post office honored
the
letters with special delivery service. Not new, but a simple
way
of securing interesting modern covers, and likely the same arrangements
would apply in many other foreign countries. It's an idea if
you
would like some unusual modern-day covers. (Please don't
write me
to ask what such covers would be worth. The idea is offered
for
philatelic
diversion, not as a short-cut to profit.)
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George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column Stamps December 22, 1956 Posted August 29, 1999 Index of 508 Notes from the Past Note: If the link isn't returned the first try, try again. Comments? Send me an e-mail |