Office envelope is a type of postal envelope intended for sending correspondence by an institution or organization for official purposes.
Description
As a rule, service envelopes have the corresponding inscription (for example, “Service” ) or design (for example, a pre-printed address of the sender or recipient of the letter ).
Government agencies in most countries use envelopes with symbols indicating their official character. So, on official mail of Great Britain very often there are inscriptions in English. “OHMS” or “On His / Her Majesty's Service” , in the USA the silhouette of an eagle is used , in Ethiopia - a hand clutching a split stick with a letter inserted into the split [1] , and Ireland uses a lyre [2] .
Labeled service envelopes usually have a stamp that matches the service stamp in the mail. In some cases, the stamp of the state and the name of the institution or organization that uses the envelope may also be printed on such a stamp.
Office envelopes, both marked and unlabeled, were issued in many countries [3] .
Unlabeled office envelopes are philatelic value (like all whole things ), provided that they have gone through the mail and have the appropriate attributes.
Examples
The following are examples of service envelopes in some countries.
Russian Empire
Forwarding of unregistered official correspondence and equivalent organizations (for example, churches), as a rule, with the exception of a number of periods, it was free. At the same time, to identify the sender on the valve of the package should have been his cachet or wax seal. Registered letters, with the exception of cases stipulated by law, were paid. In addition, the Zemstvo administrations, within the scope of their zemstvo mail, granted the right to free delivery to their own Zemstvo structures - a library, hospital, etc. [4]
- Examples of service envelopes of the Russian Empire
Official government [5] registered letter dated April 19, 1917 from Petrograd to the USA , indicating “OFFICIAL BUSINESS” at the sender’s address
An unmarked office envelope of the Sedovsky Committee ( St. Petersburg , 1912)
USSR
The following labeled service envelopes were printed in the USSR:
- 1926 - with the address of the Central Administration of Social Insurance of the People's Commissariat of Labor of the USSR,
- 1982 - with the address of the Main Computing Center of the Central Statistical Office of the USSR [6] .
In addition, the USSR Ministry of Communications and other departments and organizations used unlabelled envelopes with appropriate inscriptions or stamps ( “Official” , “Government” [5] , etc.) for internal needs, which were sent without paying the postal fee .
- Examples of service envelopes of the USSR
Service envelope of the USSR with the inscription "Custom — Service. No. _ "and the calendar stamp of the International Post Office in Moscow (1974)
Envelope of the Office of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR with the inscription "Government [5] . Moscow. No. ... ", francotype and calendar stamp of Moscow (1942)
Service envelope of the USSR with a stamp of the stamp “Service. Ministry of Communications, ”with calendar and auxiliary stamps at the Odessa Post Office (1974)
The failed local service envelope of the newspaper “For the Honor of a Miner ” ( Donetsk , 1971)
Russia
Other countries
In the Kingdom of Württemberg , much more office envelopes with a stamp were printed than unofficial envelopes [3] .
- Examples of service envelopes of other countries
Office of the President of Germany (1932) marked with lump-sum payment ( German: "Frei durch Ablösung Reich" )
Imperial German Economic Development Service (1939) marked with lump sum
US Department of War (1945) - for the mail service " "
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is for official use. The red box is intended to indicate the name of the recipient in vertical Chinese letters ; the address and code stamp are given on the left
See also
- The envelope
- Service mark
- Office mail
- Flat rate stamp
Notes
- ↑ Healey B. Pastimes: Stamps // The New York Times . - 1989. - 1 October. (English) (Retrieved April 2, 2017)
- ↑ Official Mail . ABCs of Irish Philately . Éire Philatelic Association. Date of treatment November 15, 2010. Archived March 21, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Sokolov M.P., Niselevich L.M., Smyslov A.M. Satellite of the philatelist / All-Union Society of Philatelists . - M .: Communication, 1971. - S. 73. - 167 p. - 50 000 copies.
- ↑ D. Kuznetsov. Envelopes of zemstvo mail. "Philately of the USSR." 1981. No. 5. Page 50-51.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Government mail items // Large Philatelic Dictionary / N. I. Vladinets, L. I. Ilyichev, I. Ya. Levitas ... [and others ] ; under the general. ed. N.I. Vladinets and V.A. Jacobs. - M .: Radio and communications, 1988. - S. 216. - 40 000 copies. - ISBN 5-256-00175-2 . (Retrieved May 9, 2016) Archived copy . Date of treatment May 9, 2016. Archived on May 9, 2016.
- ↑ Service envelopes // Philatelic Dictionary / V. Gralert, V. Grushke; Abbr. per. with him. Yu. M. Sokolova and E.P. Sashenkova. - M .: Communication, 1977. - S. 84. - 271 p. - 63,000 copies. (Retrieved November 14, 2010)
Literature
- Office postal items // Large Philatelic Dictionary / N. I. Vladinets, L. I. Ilyichev, I. Ya. Levitas ... [ and others ] ; under the general. ed. N.I. Vladinets and V.A. Jacobs. - M .: Radio and communications, 1988. - S. 217. - 40,000 copies. - ISBN 5-256-00175-2 . (Retrieved May 9, 2016) Archived on May 9, 2016.
Links
- Official ( inaccessible link) . Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms - O. AskPhil; . Date of treatment November 14, 2010. Archived June 17, 2012.
- Official mail ( inaccessible link) . Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms - O. AskPhil; Collectors Club of Chicago. Date of treatment November 14, 2010. Archived June 17, 2012.