Page 104 - Russo-Persian Postal Relations

Parcel mail interrupted. India postal system replaced
I.C.7 1903 Parcel post
Parcel agree- rerouted
mPnt
India Bushire E PO replacing suspended Russian/Soviet parcel transit mail
mail service 1917-1920s through Russia due to civil disturbance and civil war
Parcels for Europe were transited through Russia/Soviet as per 1903 agreement
Bushire - main Persian port in the Gulf a nd postal exchange office with Bombay - replaced Russia as the main
exchange office for parcels

Only four Persian parcel documents recorded diverted via Bushire E POs due to the Russian
revolution and the civil war

722 Teheran (Perse)
COUPON.

Peut etre detache par Rdtninistration
le destinataire
des Pastes de Perse

BUhhETI~ D'EXPEOITlON

Ci-;oinf... .. _____ / ______ colis
V aleur assuree
Norn et domicile de
J'expediteur:

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et Jd 43

(1) Cadre A remplir par le bureau d'~change d'entree 011 par le service de la dottane du pays de dl!stinatioq .

...

Rates: 9 Kran including insurance and other fees
Routes: Teheran 25 June 1922 to Switzerland diverted to Bu shire & Bombay instead of via Enzeli/Baku
Markings: the very elusive Teheran C.P. (= colix postaux) post mark, fou r recorded , used as departure mark here