Page 79 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1937 ~ 46

DEPENDENCY OVERPRINTS
CENSOR UPU MAIL

UPU letter rate revised to 3d per first ounce from 1 September 1940 to 30 June 1953

1945 Cover; ‘Passed Censor’ handstamp, type a2 in violet; SG6 datestamp, 18 FEB 1945; 1 bag of mail taken that day
by transporter SS Suderøy bound for Curacao; onward to USA where resealed by ‘Examined by (US Censor) 1152’ tape

1945 Cover to Argentina, ‘Opened by Censor’ label, type a, across flap; SG5 datestamp, 6 APR 1945,
Sent at 3d UPU rate by (per flap) Jose Sanosky, employee at PESCA, the Argentine whaling station at Grytviken

SS Fitzroy left Stanley on 3 April for South Georgia (8 - 10 April) and returned 14 April with 5 bags of mail
Departed 30 April for Montevideo, with Argentine mail onward shipped up River Plate to Buenos Aires, arrived May 7

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