RHODESIA UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Postage Dues on cover / Booklets / Political & Postal History / Bush War
POSTAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
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1976 16th September, window envelope bearing 2½c and 1c bisect definitives. Both machine cancelled ‘SALISBURY’ indicating this practice as being allowed. Uncommon.
Note: on the 1st July various postal rates were increased, no postal rates remaining such that it included a ½c rate. On that same date all stamps that indicated a ½c face value were withdrawn. However, they were still valid for postage so anyone who wanted to use a 2½c would need to add an additional 1c stamp, thus overpaying by ½c. This was not of any great significance, although some people did bisect a 1c stamp to avoid over-paying. At first this was allowed, although sometime on the 16th September this was suddenly stopped and any further covers were treated as underpaid and taxed |
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