June 2002

Air mail letter sent from Vancouver to Brünn/Brno on March 27, 1939. Ten cents was the rate for a half ounce letter to Europe. The sender, however, paid only the air mail rate to the United States, which was six cents. Postage due of 4 Kc was charged when the letter arrived in Brno, Bohemia-Moravia, 19 days after Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. The originally applied hand stamped "T 50" in a circle was crossed out and "T 40 centimes" replaced it. Two 2 Kc stamps of the 1928 postage due issue were used since Bohemia-Moravia had not yet released its own postage due stamps.