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4.3 REGULATIONS AND PRACTICES –COMMON NON-UPU REGULATED PRACTICES

WAIVER OF FORMALITIES AND BILATERAL RECOGNITION OF DOMESTIC POSTAGE RATES
Even though UPU regulations required all inscriptions concerning the reply card to be in French language besides
the language of the originating country of the question card, this was often waived if both countries had the same
language.

All the following three cards have no inscription in French language.

Austrian inland reply
card with inscription
in German and
Italian. Returned
from Germany in
1883

Dutch reply card with
Dutch inscription
returned from the
Flemish speaking
part of Belgium in
1887

Finish reply card with
inscription in
Swedish, Finish and
Russian returned
from Russian in 1887
– Finland was still
Russian until 1917.
The card has no
inscription indicating
that it is a reply card!

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