/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 3 cent. US due handstamp indicates double
deficiency 3x2=6 cent and foreign surface letter rate 13 cent. Amount due
in Sweden is 6/13 multiplied by Swedish foreign rate 70 öre = 32.31
öre rounded up to 35 öre as indicated on the due label. The due
amount should normally have been affixed on the item.