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Post codes were introduced in Austria with effect from 1st January 1966. A new printing plate was created, with the vertical and horizontal lines left out, and a new R used, so that the whole appearance became essentially modern. During the transition the old forms could be used and the new code added by means of a canceller or in writing. Three paper types are known: dark yellow paper, striped paper, and light yellow paper (warning: it changes color very easily when soaked off). Very many Registration Labels occur on all three paper types. This first example is a FDC for both the stamp and the label. The reason the reproduction of the label looks fuzzy is that the original label is fuzzy!
As for the preceding issues, counter letters occur, sometimes also double letters or combinations of lower and upper-case letters. Relatively often one finds these letters added subsequently, sometimes with cancellers, sometimes in writing. As for earlier issues Blankozetteln were prepared, to be used when no printed Registration Labels were available. Occasionally Registration Labels of other post offices were used, or earlier issues were temporarily used. A variety of examples follow.
An Official Post Office Letter to Lübeck, dated 13.12.1968.
This is a Blankozettel, with '3660 Kleinpöchlarn' added in a faint violet stamp.
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