17) Interim & Provisional Taxed Mail

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; the c...

1948 Minhelet Ha'am stamps used as provisional postage dues - local TEL AVIV cover mailed unfranked, likely entered as such into a letter box & subsequently handled by the Head Post Office: the receiving clerk stamped the cover likely with a 5 May frozen dated Mandate single circle postmark (as observed used by the HPO in the interim period) and later processed by the HPO's department which charge...

1948 1st Postage dues 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...

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 of DOAR IVRI stamps as Postage Dues: interim era local HAIFA cover franked 10 mils for inland letter postage rate using interim "Immigrant Ship" stamp (Ba #23); likely entered unpostmarked into a letter box & processed some time later by the Head Post Office, which handled letter box mails - this phenomenon is the subject of an article written by the cataloguer.By the time the cover was p...