/added
27 Jan 2010
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.
Surface mail
postcard. Correct rate 8 cent. Shortpaid 8 cent. US due handstamp indicates
double deficiency 2x8=16 cent and surface letter rate 13 cent. Amount due
in Sweden is 16/13 multiplied by Swedish foreign rate 70 öre = 86.15
öre rounded up to 90 öre, but no due seems to have been charged
in Sweden.