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MIXED CODING
PARIS-RUE DU LOUVRE and PARIS-GARE D'AUSTERUTZ
Direct sorting (uninked ident on reverse) at the Rue du Louvre sorting office, Paris, followed by
mechanised sorting at Paris-Gare d' Austerlitz (no ident), 11 April 1968.
Telephone : 642 31-39 - C. C. P. PariS.5943-07
Issy-les-Moulineaux to Alfortville
11 April 1968
The distance between Issy-les-Moulineaux in Houts-de-Seine and Alfortville in neighbouring Val-
de-Marne is only 13 kilometres yet the above item of mail has been sorted twice during its short
transit of the capital. The likely reason is that when it arrived at the Rue du Louvre office,
rather than being sorted immediately for Alfortville it was directed to the Gare d' Austerlitz to
provide practice material for the coding desk operators.
Above: Uninked ident consisting of repeated single -F ---L A 4 9
bars applied diagonally to the back of the envelope
during direct sorting at Paris-Rue du Louvre. - --- --- ---
Right: Indexatkm applied at Paris-Gare d' Austerlitz -
