Description
Holyland Palestine Austrian Post domestic taxed mail: 20 May 1914 postmarked printed matter cover on imprinted postal stationary of the Social Democratic Workers Party ('Poalei Zion'), sent from JAFFA to JERUSALEM; endorsed with red handstamp as "printed matter" but posted unfranked (likely entered that way into a letter box and postmarked later, rather than refused upon presentation at the public counter); the Jaffa post office tied the field of the cover with one strike of its postmark, tied the front with a "T" taxe mark & applied the calculated postage dues in manuscript on the front - double the deficient postage, here 2 Piastre rather than 20 Para because the cover was not unsealed per Universal Postal Union (UPU) printed matter regulations; the JERUSALEM post office subsequently tied the front & back of the cover with its arrival postmark, dated 21 May & the tax paid on arrival; slit open at top and left, manuscript calculations on back.
Rare mail as domestic postage dues. The Austrian post office granted free mail to Jewish colonies within the district of a post office - but for transmission beyond that district full postage had to be paid.
