Commercial Mail Sent to Mexico with Foreign Exchange Handstamps
This cover was both censored and treated to additional scrutiny during the First World War.
It was mailed from a life insurance company in New York to a recipient in Mexico. After some time, it was returned to the sender. One of the markings on the cover shows that it was processed through the export control branch of the government.
This bureauocracy’s job was to monitor all currency transactions that went out of the U.S. The stamp is cancelled by a Universal machine of New York City. There are some markings on the reverse: ‘Censor mark from the US’ and ‘Mexican transit markings’. The front shows a ‘pointing hand’ marking to indicate the return of the letter to the sender.
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