Return to Sender Handstamp

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The Dead Letter Office Return to Sender Handstamp is known used on one postal item from August 1908. It would appear that this example was applied within the DLO (although it is possible that it may have been applied elsewhere within the Brisbane GPO) to notify letter carriers to return the mail item to the sender. 

It is an illustrated handstamp  of a hand made into a fist with 3 knuckles, a pointed finger, and the letters 'RETURN TO SENDER' applied in dull-red ink

• Brisbane return to sender handstamp (11 August 1908) rated 5R - $100 on cover

Return to Sender handstamp

1908

Brisbane Dead Letter Office Return to Sender Handstamp rated 5R. Dated 11 August 1908. Seen in the collection of Dave Elsmore