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Foreign Mail / Re: Special US-Mexico Rate After UPU?
« on: June 17, 2017, 11:14:10 AM »
Agree, but this is the first one I've found and have just resumed interest in this stamp after a 25-year layoff. I thought some specialist might know. If no one knows, it probably means the research I did on rates to Mexico was good enough since I could find no such rate. The special rates to Canada earlier in the century are not well-known except to specialists and I thought Mexico might have one like that, too. I do appreciate the trouble you took to post this. Thanks again.

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Foreign Mail / Re: Special US-Mexico Rate After UPU?
« on: June 15, 2017, 02:03:45 PM »
Sorry. The upload feature apparently didn't like the cents symbol in my filename. I have changed it but now I get "file too large" error message. I don't want to spam anyone, so this message will explain. I'll try separately to post the attachment and ask the administrator for help if I can't. Thanks.

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Foreign Mail / Special US-Mexico Rate After UPU?
« on: June 15, 2017, 01:40:35 PM »
The attached cover was mailed 10 Dec 1885 from Magdalena, NM to Chihuahua. The 2¢ envelope was uprated to 4¢ by a #210 red brown. There does not appear to have been a now-missing stamp. Both the US and Mexico were in the UPU, so I would expect 5¢. I have been unable to find mention of a special 4¢ rate between the US and Mexico or between border states. Does anyone know about such a rate or have other ideas about the cover? Thanks.

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