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4.3 REGULATIONS AND PRACTICES –COMMON NON-UPU REGULATED PRACTICES
NO ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOREIGN FRANKING
Things did not always go smoothly and the foreign franking was often not accepted as means of payment. Still, such
lack of acceptance often also had political reason, as the examples from post-war East and West Germany show.
Reply card franked with 8 Pfennig stamp of the Allied Military government in the American occupation zone
returned in 1947 from Dresden in the Soviet zone. The card is not sufficiently franked – it should have been
franked with 12 Pfennig.
Reply card correctly prepaid with a correct 12 Pfennig incipium of the German Post of the Soviet zone.
Returned from Duisburg in the «Trizone», which soon would became West Germany. The franking was not
accepted and a postage due marking of 15 Pfennig – 1.5 times the missing franking – was applied.
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