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Posted 10/05/2024   5:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Makanudo to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello Everyone,

I got these three covers sent by local goverment, postally canceles but without obvious receiving party or Post Office.

Can anyone shed some light on purpose and postal marks of these covers.

Thanks





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Posted 10/05/2024   6:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jorgesurcl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Those with prefix "F" are FRANCOTYP-POSTALIA franking machines and the one with "E" is PITNEY BOWES
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Posted 10/06/2024   06:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Makanudo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Jorgesurci,
Its just that I cannot reckognise any receiving post office marks, nor is there any form of address of the receiving individual or institution.
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Posted 10/06/2024   06:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
These all are covers with a window. The letters will have had the recipient's printed such that when folded and inserted, it would have sat behind the window.

The first cover has a correct inland rate for standard letters up to 20 grammes.
The second cover was sent on the second day of the new rate for for standard letters up to 20 grammes. It increased from DM 1.00 to DM 1.10 on 1 September 1997.
The final cover has a franking for the compact letters over 20 grammes and up to 50 grammes.

These all look like ordinary mailings to inhabitants of Germany. They could be tax forms, and one looks likes it contained papers relating to refugees or immigrants settling in Germany.

All quite ordinary covers. Local authorities, most likely, used meter marks on their post. These would have been applied using franking machines at the offices of the local authorities. Once or twice a day, postbags were collected by the postman and sorted for delivery.

Receiving marks were ancient history in the 1990s. There is no reason to expect those. And as they were franked with dated meter marks, no cancellation was required.
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Edited by NSK - 10/06/2024 07:03 am
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Posted 10/06/2024   11:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Makanudo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks NSK.

I knew I was missing out on something obvious, but now you pointed out the obvious fact that there is a window, I feel rather brainless.
I receive such envelopes everyday.
Thanks.
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