/added
22 Aug 2009
Postage
due items from USA to Sweden
1 May 1975
- 31 Dec 1975
US foreign
surface letter rate 18 c
Swedish foreign
surface letter rate 110 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 110 and rounded up to nearest 5 öre
was normally paid by affixing stamps on the item.
Letter with 10 cent. Correct rate 18 cent. Shortpaid
8 cent. US due handstamp indicates double deficiency 16 cent and foreign
letter rate 18 cent. This item seems to have arrived in Sweden after 1
Feb 1976. It has been charged with single deficiency 16/18 of 110= 97.78
rounded up to 100 öre and handeling fee 100 öre, totally 200
öre. Due have been affixed on the affixexed due card. The use of due
cards started 1 Feb 1976