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An envelope kept in the Alexander collection sheds light on the development of postal services in the West Bank of the Kingdom of Jordan in the late 1950s. In addition, we can learn from the way the Jordanian security services handled the envelope about the tense relations with the State of Israel across the border.
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To prepare the printing plate, a single stamp plate must be produced and duplicated with as much precision as the number of copies required to print an entire stamp sheet. The process of duplicating a single stamp is susceptible to errors, resulting in copies that differ slightly from the original.
Special stamps issued in several countries to pay the special rate charged by the post office for letters delivered at the post office after normal business hours and requiring special manual handling by postal officials. In most countries, special stamps were not prepared for this purpose, but ordinary stamps were used and a handwritten or stamped note on the envelope stating that the additional payment had been collected.
An envelope sent on the island of Trinidad documents an attempt by the local charity to collect donations for the Red Cross during World War I. The course of events turned this activity into a philatelic curiosity.
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