XZ2TZ 1965 Burma
A Don Miller W9WNV, Chuck Swain
K7LMU DXpedition.
This is a special edition QSL only sent to a choice few, perhaps
sponsors.
Mailed on Strand Hotel Rangoon
postcard
The "Rangoon Sorting" postmark on this card is a
definite fake. I've looked at thousands of Rangoon postmarks from
this period, and I can say this with confidence. It's roughly the
right format, but the wrong colour (should be black) and the
wrong lettering fonts. It looks more like a US postmark, in fact.
I'd imagine it's in water-soluble ink, from an office-type stamp
pad, which a postal service would not use. The stamps are
genuine, and so, I'm sure, is the card. And I'm no expert on Thai
postmarks but the Bangkok GPO mark looks OK to me. But then the
card (Union of Burma Airways) could probably be obtained at
Bangkok airport, the stamps from any Thai stamp dealer, and it
would have been simple to drop off the card by hand at Bangkok
GPO, where it would have been postmarked and put in the PO Box.
(Thanks Richard Warren - Burma Philatelic Study Circle)
QSL G4UZN Collection