Foreign Stamps
16. - Union stamps are not om sales to the public. The public must be induced to buy Chinese stamps and use them to frank outward international mail matter. Where domestic mail matter is concerned the stamps should as usual be affixed on the face; but where international mail matter, i.e. mail destined for foreign countires, is concerned the Chinese stamps should be affixed on the back of the articles so as to leave the front free for the Union stamps and the duty of affixing Union stamps of a value equal to the Chinese stamps devolved on the Postal Oficier.
单兄,我先前认为轮船八卦戳是游客在长江轮船上投寄邮件,轮船公司代邮政销盖轮船八卦戳销票,轮船到达上海或汉口,信件从轮船邮箱里取出交由口岸邮局,上海或汉口邮局再加盖“from steamer’s letter box”。现在看来,这种理解得更新了,应该只是单程的,只有汉口到上海的轮船带去信件,而且寄信人未必在轮船上,路人甲也可以在开船前投寄在轮船邮箱里。轮船八卦戳是信件取出交上海局之后,由上海局销的八卦,以示区别于上海本地寄出的邮件。销在蟠龙票上的上海小圆戳是在换贴客邮票时贴的。所以,我认为不是漏销。