June 2003

Rather than a cover this month we will look at postal documentation that is very useful when studying postal history. Such documents contain considerable information both on routes postal practices. This document indicates mail carried (three letters and one package) by a Siberian Rail Field Post from Omsk to Novonikolayevsk along the Omsk - Vladivostok route. The mail was registered on November 15, 1919 in Omsk. The rail field post office used the round 10 postal cancel (normally seen only with one numeral 10). The document was signed by the sending postal clerk the amount of mail was indicated both in its written and symbol forms.