1969 incoming US air mail taxed postage dues: 16 Oct 1969 postmarked airmailed long cover, sent from NEW YORK (no return address) to employee at Dan Hotel in TEL AVIV, meter franked 25c but taxed in the US for short-payment: using the taxe fraction method instituted as of 1 Jan 1966 by the Universal Postal Union's (UPU) Vienna convention, of the sending postal administration indicating the amount owed as twice the deficiency in the numerator and the country's base letter surface postage rate in the denominator - here the cover was deficient 25c for the 13c rate, and charged 50c as the tax.

In Israel this ratio was multiplied by the country's period base letter surface postage rate of 30 agorot, yielding a calculated postage dues tax amount of 115ag, paid on 21 Oct at TEL AVIV-115 (Head Post Office) using 1969 New Year Ba #435 + 0.80L 1969 2nd Town Emblems Ba #431 stamps; machine backstamped 19 Oct TEL AVIV-8 transit-arrival & 22 Oct TEL AVIV-87 (Nordau Street branch office) delivery; torn open at back, complete. The manuscript number ("3219") on the front was the hotel's post office box number to which tax mail like this was accumulated.


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