/added
16 Oct 2005
Postage
due items from USA to Sweden
1 May 1967
- 30 June 1971
US foreign
surface letter rate 13 c
Swedish foreign
surface letter rate 70 öre
US handstamp
shows amount to pay in US cents (normally double deficiency) and US surface
letter rate.
In Sweden
the indicated fraction multiplied by 70 and rounded up to nearest 5 öre
was normally paid by affixing stamps on the item.
Air mail postal
card with 7 cent. Correct rate 13 cent. Shortpaid 6 cent. US due handstamp
indicates double deficiency 2x6=12 cent and surface letter rate 13 cent.
Amount due in Sweden; 12/13 multiplied by Swedish foreign letter rate 70
öre = 64.61 öre rounded up to 65 öre. Stamps should normally
have been affixed on the on the item but the amount has probably been ignored
or the stamps affixed elswhere.