Hello all. I recently acquired the below envelope. It looks like a postage paid envelope for 16c, but then I noticed there was another mark beside the original saying it was revalued to 15c:
I was wondering if anybody knew anything about this envelope (not this particular one, obviously, although it would be really cool if somebody did personally know the one in my hands, but I meant others like it) and why it was revalued?
Someone will know the exact answer to this, but it looks as if postal rates were adjusted at some point shortly after the original cover was printed. Then the revaluation would have been stamped or reprinted on the original. Something akin to this happened here in the Christmas issue of 1986 when the low value (13p) in a set of 5 issued on 18 November had to be replaced three weeks later by an ever lower value (12p) on 2 December because rates had changed.
Astrophilatelist- Space Cover Collector 05 Sep 2015 07:43:58am
re: Why Was This Reduced?
The envelopes were printed for a rate that never materialized. Instead of destroying the whole print run, they revalued the envelopes to the rate eventually adopted.
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