15) Emergency Postal Services & Foreign links

1948 JERUSALEM siege period couriered (flown?) mail: cover from female in JERUSALEM to female in TEL AVIV franked 10m at period letter rate using Jerusalem 2nd locals Ba105; couriered to TEL AVIV and posted locally in June 1948, tied by 23-6-1948 TEL AVIV trilingual postmark (per elements of faint Hebrew date) - interim franking was invalid outside Jerusalem after 22 May and accepted inconsistentl...

Couriered US Official mail as early-dated no-service German mail: 5 APR 1948 postmarked official mail from US War Department central filing agency in BAD NAUHEIM Germany to TEL AVIV & franked 50pf per period surface rate. Surface mail from Germany to Palestine was routed via the UK as she controlled the Mandate, however from 25 March surface mail to Palestine from the UK was suspended and such mai...

1948 couriered mail from Britain - taxed postage dues in Israel: unpostmarked cover addressed to a Doctor in TEL AVIV "Israel" with fragmentary return address in "ENGLAND", carried by a person by sea or air and deposited into a letter box unfranked; subsequently taxed on 20 June 1948 by the TEL AVIV head post office - but charged only for the deficient 10 mils inland letter postage, a concessionar...

1948 US "service suspended" mail to Palestine - sent via PEDI: 22 JUNE 1948 air letter from BROOKLYN to TIVON via Haifa, franked 10c per pre-printed stamp & tied by local machine cancel; here posted 4 days before actual resumption of unregistered airmail services from the US (announced officially on 29th) & marked by NY Post Office by 2-line "SERVICE SUSPENDED | RETURN TO SENDER." instructional ma...

1948 backstamped PEDI airmail: commercial cover from NYC to Walter Eitan at Foreign Ministry in Kirya TEL AVIV, machine franked 25c airmail rate on 23 June 1948 and tied by PEDI Type II cancel, cover numbered 19687 (corresponds to 23-24 June) - 15th shipment; backstamped 13 July 1948 HAKIRYA arrival - extremely rare on a PEDI cover as these not usually registered mails. Slit open at top. Eitan was...

1948 War of Independence couriered mail + early/1st day Tel Aviv Airport mail: 25 Aug 1948 postmarked air mail cover on Italian airmail postal stationary sent from TEL AVIV (return addressed GIVAT BRENNER) to MILAN, franked 25 mils per FA-1 period postage rate to Italy & tied by single strike of local post office; machine backstamped 1 Sept. TORINO (Turin) transit-arrival; opened gently at bac...