In many countries and
until very recently, post offices used formular cards to register despatch of
parcels and money transfers. Fee payments from the customer were matched by
adhesive stamp frankings on the formulars. In most countries, these formulars
were archived in large quantities and eventually sold off or, quite often,
looted . So for some countries formulars are very common: Latvia’s Parvedums are a good example
Formulars were also
used for internal post office transactions and these are less often seen,
perhaps because they were unfranked. In case of a temporary shortage of regular
formulars, official business formulars were sometimes used with some handstamp
or manuscript modification to indicate the different use. This is the case with
the two items below which both use Official Business money transfer forms for
ordinary over the counter transfers.
The first one was used
in January 1919 at ULADOVKA in Podolia to send 283 rubels to Vinnitsa where it
arrived and was signed for. The correct 3 rubel franking was all on the front
with the right edge officially clipped (to prevent re-use of the stamps) before
being sent to the archives. From there it found its way into the Vyrovyj
collection and was sold as a single lot (Lot 303) in the 1986 Schaetzle sale of
that collection. The formular is on thin paper and looks like a cheap post-1917
reprint and it is modified at the top left in manuscript to indicate its use
for an ordinary post office counter transaction.
The second card was
used at VOROSHILOVKA in Podolia to send 30 rubels to Shargorod where a receiver
mark was applied though a note suggests that the money was not collected. This
card has been expertised bottom right by UPNS ZELONKA.
Both formulars are rarely seen.
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