Correspondences: Offiial Covers

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The fall of the Berlin Wall directly affected the Germany Women and Sites Definitives. The German postal system went from West Germany and Berlin, to transition use of East German postmarks, and then from 4 to 5 digit postal codes for unified Germany. The fortunante low usage of postal meters results in some great high value usages. The current images shown here are placeholders. The high values of the First Women Series are discussed in Article 10. I have recently authored an article (53) with selections from a small correspondence sent to X-Press Marketing in Berlin. An example of one of these covers (Berlin-Pankow, postal code 13187) is shown below. Except for a cover from Oranienburg-165X5, and one postmarked at Briefenzentrum 13, all of the covers shown here are postmarked in the various offices of Berlin. Quick links to these (implicit for all these numbers is that they correspond to Berlin post offices [postal code in bracket as read from cover]): 126 / 4 [10115] / 10 [10585] / 304 [10779] / 62 [10827] / 443 [12051] / 42 [12099] / [12101] / 427 [12105] / 480 [12279] / 47 [12539] / Berlin-Kopenick [12555] / Berlin-Hohenschonhausen-3 [13051] / Berlin-Hohenschonhausen-2 [13055] / Berlin-Pankow [13187] / 510 [13405] / 26 [13437] / 260 [13439] / 27 [13507] / 271 [13507] / 20 [13581] / 201 [13589] / 301 [13589] / 191 [14039] / 332 [14195] / Potsdam 90 [14482]

First German Women Issue

(1986-1992)

First German Sites Issue

(1987-1994)

Self-Sticks, Entires, and Booklets of the

First German Sites Issue