12) Service Suspended Mail (by non-belligerents)

1948 US "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 31 MAR 1948 uprated pre-franked surface mail cover from WELLSBORO to KFAR ATTA, franked 5c & tied by local machine cancel; posted 4 days after 27 March American surface-mail suspension to Palestine, so marked by NEW YORK CITY Post Office "Surface Mail Suspended | Return to Sender" instructional marking handstamp K-Type-1 & returned to sender. Opened r...

Earliest known dated 1948 American-Palestine postal suspension marking Kibble Type-VIII in violet tied to front of 26 April 1948 postmarked air mail air letter sent from BROOKLYN to HAIFA, franked 10c & tied by machine cancel. The US post office suspended airmail to Palestine on 26 April; the earliest dated postmark for IM Type VIII recorded by Kibble is 29 April.; the date here is confirmed by th...

Earliest known dated 1948 American-Palestine postal suspension marking Kibble Type-III in violet tied to front of 28 April 1948 postmarked air mail commercial cover on imprinted business postal stationary sent from NEW YORK to HAIFA, franked 25c at base rate & tied by machine cancel; backstamped 30 April MORGAN STATION return-arrival; opened gently at back. The US post office suspended airmail to ...

1948 American-Palestine postal suspension marking Kibble Type-V in purple tied to front of 13 May 1948 postmarked air mail commercial cover sent from NEW YORK to HAIFA, franked 50c at double weight rate; slit open at top. The US post office suspended airmail to Palestine on 26 April....

1st day Israel 15 May 1948 postmarked CHICAGO surface mailed cover to HAIFA, franked 5c & tied by machine cancel - but as the US Post Office suspended surface mail to Palestine on 27 March, its transmission stopped & tied by postal suspension marking Kibble Type-IV in violet; machine backstamped 17 May return....

1948 early postal links / service (not) suspended mail: "First Day airmail to Israel" return paid post card (RPPC) from CHICAGO Palestine Postal History Society to postmaster PETACH TIKVA, pre-printed with 3c franking + additional 22c franking for overseas airmail, postmarked "Chicago-Airmail" 29 JUN 1948 (1st day of US-Israel mail) & erroniously stamped "Return to Mailing Office | Service Suspend...