1892 imprinted 1d letter card uprated with 1d and 1/2d postage stamps sent from London to Germany; complete with selvages 1943 use of an early aerogramme inscribed Air Mail Letter Card. The fact that it has an adhesive stamp, rather than a prepaid imprinted stamp or indicium, means that it is not postal stationery. Instead, it is a formular air letter card In philately a lettercard or letter card is a postal stationery item consisting of a folded card with a prepaid imprinted stamp. The fact that it is folded over gives the writer twice as much room for the message compared with a postal card.
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As with adhesive stamps, a perforation gauge will be a useful tool of the trade. The terms Letter Card or Air Mail Letter Card were sometimes used on aerogrammes prior to 1952, the year that the U.P.U. gave official recognition of the word aerogramme. But for aerograms, those terms are misleading. The use of the word "card" implies a heavier card stock when, in fact, many of these "cards" were actually printed on light paper and were letter sheets instead of letter cards.
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UK letter card of 1892 with an imprinted stamp and perforations. U.S. postal card of 1881 with an imprinted stamp. A Bavarian postal card of 1895 with an imprinted stamp. Cuban postal card of 1878.
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An imprinted stamp on an 1898 Cuba postal card. In philately, an imprinted stamp is a stamp printed onto a piece of postal stationery such as a stamped envelope, postal card, letter sheet, letter card, aerogram or wrapper.Carlton, R. Scott. The International Encyclopedic Dictionary of Philately.
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1943 FPO mail from Gibraltar A postal stationery airmail letter sheet, entitled "Forces Letter Card", now commonly known as an aerogram, was made available during World War II for British military forces and a few were issued with a large St. Andrew's cross printed on the front portion of the air letter.
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Direct mail is a letter, card, catalogue, or sample sent through post, email, fax, or courier. This communication is most effective when the recipient has shown interest in or has previously purchased from the organization. Advantages of direct mail are personalisation, careful targeting, creativity and flexibility. Email is low-cost, but can be lost through spam and junk email filters.
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Each letter, card and parcel mailed at Santa Claus’ Main Post Office is franked with a special postmark and stamp. The logo of Santa Claus’ Main Post Office was designed by Finnish graphic designer Pekka Vuori. The logo is also a registered trademark. The postmark contains a stylized logo that was changed to its current form by graphic designer Jukka Talari in 2012.
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The first official British letter card was issued in 1892. In Newfoundland reply lettercards were introduced in 1912 which included a small reply card. The United States has never issued letter cards. Collectors of letter cards not only have to deal with the varieties of card stock and color, but with the additional variations that come with the perforation of the cards.
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A Bahamas 2½d on 4d imprinted stamp cut square from a piece of postal stationery.In philately, a cut square is an imprinted stamp cut from an item of postal stationery such as a stamped envelope, postal card, letter sheet, letter card, aerogram or wrapper in a square or rectangular shape.Youngblood, Wayne L. All about Stamps, Krause Publications, Iola WI, 2000, p.51. . An alternative use of the term is simply any stamp, from sheets or postal stationery, cut in a square or rectangular shape and not cut to shape.
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A letter card almost has the advantages of a postal card as far as weight and size, but also the advantage of privacy of contents is concerned.Van Gelder, Peter J.; The Collectors' Guide to Postal Stationery, A Squirel Publication (1997) It is a double card, folded over, with gum or adhesive applied to the three open edges. It is then opened by the recipient by tearing perforations on the three sides that are on the message side of the gum. The gummed strip around the card is then discarded, giving rise to the problems collectors have in finding intact used cards.
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Georgic in an early 1930s letter card In design the Georgic was essentially a slightly larger version of her earlier sister ship Britannic, having a gross tonnage of 27,759, compared with Britannics 26,943. Georgic differed in appearance from Britannic in that the forward part of her superstructure and bridge was rounded instead of straight, and the front part of her promenade deck was covered. Like Britannic, Georgic had two short stumpy funnels, the forward one of which was a dummy which housed the radio room and the engineers smoke room. Georgics powerplant was identical to that of her sister, consisting of two 10 cylinder four stroke Burmeister & Wain diesel engines.
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Iraq airmail letter card issued in 1933 Special stationery on thin sheets of paper, called Air Letter Cards were available in Iraq as early as 1933.Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog The sheets were folded to the size of the blue border, and gummed flaps were used to seal the sheet. Douglas Gumbley, director of Posts to the Iraq Government in the 1930s, realised there was a need for a lightweight form for use in the developing air services in, and through, the Middle East because regular overland mail was charged by weight and varied in size and seemed likely to be too expensive for airmail service. He personally copyrighted the product in February 1933 and it was used first in Iraq and later in the British Mandate of Palestine where Gumbley was in charge of postal matters in the late 1930s.
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