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4 .2 REGULATIONS AND PRACTICES –SPECIFIC UPU REGULATIONS FOR REPLY CARDS
Besides the general rules and regulations, the UPU issued several rules specifically addressed towards
SPECIFIC
double cards consisting of question and reply cards. The following chapter gives an overview on those
rules and regulations directly issued by the UPU.
ACCEPTED FRANKINGS
One of the first and most basic rules was the matter of acceptable franking: UPU admitted both adhesive stamps
as well as imprinted stamps. This simple fact is still not common knowledge among philatelists, who often
consider reply cards as solely being postal stationery.
Two reply cards used back to Austria in the 1950s.
Above: Using a 1.45 Schilling adhesive stamp as franking.
Below: Using an official postal stationery reply card with an imprinted incipium at the same rate and design
at 1.45 Schilling
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