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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Instructional marks
Registered PO envelopes sent to foreign destinations
Port Elizabeth to Germany
September 1894
REGISTERED
Main feature
The POSTED OUT OF COURSE mark applied in red in Port Elizabeth. This
was done when a registered letter was put in a letter box rather than
being handed over a PO counter or handed to a PO agent. Normally a fine
equivalent to another registration fee of 4d would be levied but as this
was a registered letter to a foreign country no fine was levied.
The 4d registration fee was paid by the 4d blue QV embossed stamp on the back flap.
Marks with the same wording but boxed were also used.
The rate to German y was 2 %d for %d from the 1st September 1892 as CGH moved
towards UPU admission and UPU rates on the 1st January 1895 . 
