17) Interim & Provisional Taxed Mail

Late use of interim franking - untaxed: 30 MAY 1948 postmarked commercial cover on HaMeshek HaChaklai business stationary, from TEL AVIV to RAMOT HASHAVIM, franked 10m per period domestic letter rate but using a now invalid demonetized Weizmann interim frank (Ba #12) 9 days after its last valid date for use (21 May) - and accepted by the post office (possibly TLV-2, unclear on postmark), which can...

Interim franks as postage dues + Poste Restante handling & fee: undated local TEL AVIV interim period commercial cover from transport cooperative to private individual David Kiblowitz, franked 10m per period inland letter rate but using invalid JNF 10m Negev pipeline label (not overprinted with 'DOAR'), so not cancelled and liable for postage dues; as the addressee could not receive the mail the c...

Interim stamps as postage dues: undated interim period local TEL AVIV cover, franked 10m per period inland letter postage rate - but using 2x invalid JNF 5 mils Map labels (not counterstamped with 'DOAR', to make them valid interim postage stamps); the invalid franks were here cancelled by 2x strikes of the local postmark against regulations, but the cover was still sanctioned for postage dues, an...

Interim franks as postage due on a postcard: 11 MAY 1948 manuscript dated postal card from HERZLIYA-TEL AVIV to TEL AVIV franked 10m for period 7m postcard rate using invalid JNF Zionist Congress Jubilee label (not overprinted with 'DOAR'), so not cancelled & postcard marked by tax boxed cachet - erroniously charged for twice the deficiency per letter rate (20m - almost 3x the postcard rate), ...

1948 Minhelet Ha'am stamps used as provisional postage dues: local TEL AVIV cover mailed unfranked & tied by Mandate single-circle TEL AVIV postmark in field, and taxed double the deficiency, marked by Mandate "to pay" boxed cachet; paid using 2x interim 10m Weizmann Ba12 franks with Tel Aviv overprints + obliterated by large "T" tax handstamp, making these "provisional" postage due franks: co...

1948 taxed mail between 2 postal authorities + delayed: interim era local TEL AVIV cover franked 10m using invalid JNF stamp (not over-stamped "Doar" for use as valid interim period postage), likely deposited into a letter box as not postmarked; subsequently handled by the head post office who tied it with a 5 MAY 1948 single circle Mandate postmark - likely 'frozen dated' for the purpose of indic...

Earliest known Israeli postage dues cover from Haifa: 16 May 1948 1st day Israel postmarked stampless cover addressed locally in HAIFA; as posted unfranked, it was taxed for twice the deficient postage (2x 10 mils domestic letter rate) & so marked with T taxe mark and Hebrew manuscript "20 mils" + head post office postmark tied to the empty space of the cover - here uniquely charged in this period...

1948 Haifa 'T' obliterated provisional postage dues: stampless undated local HAIFA cover likely entered unpaid into a letter box; subsequently taxed postage dues (twice the deficiency - here 2x 10 mils base domestic letter postage rate) when the letter box was emptied, here 28 May 1948 at the head post office. The cover was stamped once on the field by the HPO's postmark then tied by the Mandate e...

1948 Haifa 'T' provisional postage dues: 3 mils Doar Ivri franked (10x11 perf, Ba #1d) local HAIFA cover, as sealed not eligible to be accepted as printed matter mail and so underfranked 7 mils for the inland letter postage rate. Likely entered short paid into a letter box, some time from 16 May 1948 onwards once the Doar Ivri stamps entered use - as observed with other similar Haifian covers - an...

Early postage dues + double perforations: 30 May 1948 postmarked local HAIFA commercial cover franked 6m with 2x rouletted 3m Doar Ivri stamps (Ba #1c) with left gutter tied by full strike of Haifa Head Post Office postmark, possibly intending to pay for printed matter + additional 50g, as the cover unsealed (per printed-matter regulations), but this unaccepted perhaps because cover not marked "pr...

LATE USE Doar Ivri stamps as Postage Dues: 2 JUNE 1948 local HAIFA cover franked 10m per period letter rate using Minhelet Haam "Immigrant Ship" stamp (Ba #23) - however interim franks were demonetized as of 23 May: the postal clerk correctly tied Head Post Office trilingual postmark to the field of the cover and did not cancel the stamp, and marked the cover with a "T" tax handstamp + manuscript ...