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These Porto bar bezalt labels were privately produced, but recognised by the Post Office. See Michel (1998 edn) pp92-3 or APS Library item 272 "Spezialkatalog Notmaßnahmen in Österreich 1945-1948" pp77-77
Here Taxe Percue 2.40 and a signature indicates that the postage was paid in cash.
Beside German Registration Labels, remaining stocks of First Republic labels could be used. This possibility is however much rarer than the first, for such Registration Labels had to have been preserved in the post office throughout the war, and to have outlasted all orders for their destruction despite the considerable risk for the officials concerned. Proof of such use in the Second Republic is possible only on letters, and exceptionally on loose pieces. On this undated cover, 1.40 is written in the top left corner (enhanced from the faint pencil original) and boxed in red to indicate that the postage was paid in cash.
If neither German nor early Austrian Registration Labels could be used, the individual Post Office had to create provisional Registration Labels for itself. Most wrote the Registration Labels directly on the letter, and added the place-name with a canceller, or by hand. Also Registration cancellers were (re)used. The cover below was posted airmail from Klagenfurt to Rhode Island, USA, on 14 Aug 1947.
Beside that, many post offices produced their own adhesive Registration Labels, with which all possible variations occur: Langstempel with written number and R, even simple duplicating processes and perforations were used. These provisional measures extended over several years and ended with the supply of new Registration Labels, which sometimes took a very long time.
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