Ethiopia: Aerogramme Parcel Label

 

This label indicates the contents of a package of 500 of the 55-cent Ethiopian aerogrammes. Most of these were thrown away at post offices when a new package was opened.

In more than 30 years of collecting aerogrammes, I have never come across one of these from Ethiopia. Elsewhere on the blog, I have a similar one from Nepal, which I consider equivalently rare.

Ethiopia / France
Special Fee for Poste Restante Service

Aerogramme (Müller/Wiegand 11d, Watermark IMPERIAL AIR MAIL “B”) sent from Ethiopia to Arbois, France, with the instruction “POSTE RESTANTE”.

Four 0,10 F postage due stamps were affixed as a fee for the “Poste restante” service.

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) rules allowed countries to charge a fee for incoming international mail sent to a poste restante (general delivery) address provided those countries also imposed a charge on domestic poste restante mail.


References
Müller/Wiegand stands for Müller/Wiegand, Katalog der Aerogramme von Afrika, 1995