"Pierre Courtiade" wrote in message
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A friend of me asks (in the French speaking philatelic news-group :
fr.rec.philatelie) the following question.

Is it allowed to use a cover, cancelled with a FDC type cancel, later
than the FDC date ?

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All the best,
Pierre Courtiade

Bonjour Pierre,

I know for sure that I could send FDC's from Romania by mail, and this was
true for FDC's having valid postal stamps on them. The Romanian PO's have
put a supplementary cancel on the cover, but haven't cancelled the stamps
again.

The separate stamps taken from the FDC's weren't valid for postage.

I find this a reasonable practice, because obviously the stamps on FDC's
haven't served for what they were mainly printed, i.e. for paying the postal
transportation and delivery fees.

A+

Victor Manta

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