Malaysian air letter form sent from KUALA LUMPUR (7 JAN 53) to Montreal, Canada. Franked with 25 c stamp. Since March 14, 1949 the air letter rate to Canada was 35 c. Hence, the air letter is short paid 10 c.
According to UPU rules effective in 1953, double the deficiency (20 c) had to be converted into UPU gold centimes at a rate where Malysia's international first weight step surface mail rate, which was 20 c in 1953, is equivalent to 20 UPU gold centimes. Accordingly, "20" was endosed in pencil within the Malaysian hexagonal T handstamp.
Canada calculated with an exchange rate of 1 c = 3 UPU gold centimes. So 20 UPU gold centimes were equal to 7 c, which is endorsed in the rectangular Canadian handstamp. The endorsement, however, could be misread as "1".
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