  2d QV Inland Registry Envelope Uprated With a 2½d QV Definitive Seething Lane B.O. E.C. 25 Jan 1888 Registered London 4E 25 Jan 1888 Luxembourg-Gare [b/s] 26 Jan 1888 Diekirch [b/s] 26 Jan 1888  |
This is the first example of incoming mail I’ve seen from this (or any) period with re-registry in Belgium? What purpose did re-registration serve? Perhaps the Belgian registry label was applied due to the absence of a London registry label (and number).
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I think the application of a Belgian registration label may simply have been a way to record the letter within the Belgian system.
In the present century Royal Mail did for a period apply their own barcoded label to incoming international mail which already had a barcode (and number) from the sending country.
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