I've been going through post cards looking for rare stamps for 15 years or more and I've never ran across this P.O stamp before and I've gone through hundreds of thousands of postcards on the various websites,anyone know what "UNDER COVER" means,I know it's probably not rare but wonder what it is,I can find anything about it online.
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My *GUESS* is that the French PO did not feel that the card could be reliably marked for return for sender - or that, once so marked, it would bounce back'n'forth, and never get to its final destination - so they popped it into an envelope to return it for a better address.
I'm no expert, but think ikey is right. I've seen a couple of 1850s era letters that were forwarded by postmasters with the use of this "under cover" terminology.
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"I no longer collect, but will never abandon the hobby"
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There are a lot of good reasons to cert an item, including supporting important institutions like PF & APS, but I'm not optimistic about recovering that cost from the marketplace ... but what do I know?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Hi,I've sent in 5-6 items that for me were not my thing I collect but thought they were probably interesting to others so I sent them in and put them on ebay for the cost of the cert plus $1,3 times they sold for the dollar,a couples of times around 20 bucks and once I got $600.
Here is one of the "under cover of" examples I have seen. It was addressed to Hillsboro, Wayn(e) County, Indiana. The post office at Hillsborough/Hillsboro was White River PO. This was received at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania post office from Charleston, South Carolina.
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Re: the Paris postcard -- there would be no way to return it if it was undeliverable, since no return address was included. The only way would have been to put it in an envelope and return it to the post office of origin.
