/added
10 Jun2006
Postage
due items from USA to Sweden
1 Jan 1967
to 30 April 1967
US foreign
surface letter rate 11 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.
Unfranked letter. Correct rate 11 cent. Shortpaid
6 cent. US due handstamp indicates double deficiency 2x6=12 cent and foreign
surface letter rate 11 cent. Amount due in Sweden is 12/11 of foreign surface
letter rate 70 öre = 76.36 öre rounded up to 80 öre. Postage
stamps for the amount due should have been affixed on the item, but here
the amount had probably been paid in another way.