Sunday, October 31, 2021

British India 'Postage Due' on Travancore Cash Eight card



1) Travancore to Calcutta

1892...Travancore 8 Cash card posted from Tiruvella Anchal office (Medam 11, 1067...April 24) to Changnacherry Anchal office (Medam 12..April 25) ...Pre-stamp era cds.
 & transferred to Changnacherry (manuscript in Malayalam by the Anchal postmaster) Imperial post on April 25  for onward transmission to Calcutta with boxed Postage Due (1/2 Anna..in red manuscript). Delivered @ Calcutta  (April 30).
Postcard rate is 1/4 Anna, hence taxed by 1/2 Anna..twice the deficient.


 
2) Travancore green Anchal postbox to Imperial  red postbox.

1893 (13 April) Travancore Cash Eight perforated (10) post card from Kanjirapally (addressed to Appu Ayengar, Sub postmaster of Kottayam Post Office-British India) to Kottayam local Travancore anchal office (15 April) 
& then transferred/posted to British Imperial Kottayam office, attracting a Postage Due fine of One Anna...(normal post card rate is 1/4 Anna,  since this is a (part of) double card..normal rate for double card is 1/2 Anna...hence taxed by 1 Anna).

Travelled thru' the green Travancore post box & red box of British India.

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