Southern Rhodesia: Short-paid Aerogramme / Taxation Misread in Country of Destination

 

Southern Rhodesia 6d aerogramme sent from R.A.F. Heany in March 1953 to Cambrai, France, where it arrived on 14 March 1953.

At the time of posting, the air letter rate to France was 7½d. Hence, the air letter was short-paid 1½ d. Double deficiency (3d) was converted into 10.8 UPU centimes (1d = 3.6 ctms).

The 50 F equivalent - 1,67 times the French UPU letter rate - calculated by the French postal authorities suggests that they have read the taxation as 108 ctms instead of 10.8 ctms.

Australia: 40 cent Aerogramme Double Printing of Blue Color

This is the 1983 40-cent "Hot Air Ballooning" aerogramme (Roggenkämper/Russ/Wiegand #64) with a double printing of the blue color.

I have never seen this before.

 

Fiji: Underpaid Aerogramme Diverted to Surface Mail

 

6d aerogramme sent from Levuka (14 MR 66) to Germany. The aerogramme rate to European destinations was 10d. As less than 75% of the rate had been prepaid, the aerogramme was diverted to surface mail in accordance with the regulations set by the 1964 Vienna UPU congress.

Australia: 10c Aerogramme with Enclosure

10c aerogramme with sender’s endorsement „- Please do not fold, pictures are enclosed -“. Consequentially, the sender uprated the aerogramme with a 10c stamp to pay the 20c air mail letter rate to Vietnam at the time of posting (September 1970).