Registered letter sent from Jericho on 28.Dec.1994 Chap.4a
The period between the closing of Israeli offices until the official First Day of the P.A. Post : ( 1 Jan.1995) , the post office functioned only partially .It was mainly engaged in distribution of incoming mail . Most of the period there were no stamps Nor postmarks , and when the stamps were received towards the end of 1994 , there still were No postmarks . Thus outgoing letters of this period are scarce .The letter was sent by Registered mail on 28.Dec.1994 from the post office of Jericho
Stamps affixed to this envelope were canceled manually (pen) and posting date was handwritten . (postmark not yet available) .
As registration labels also were not yet available , the registration number was added manually (by pen) on the left side of the envelope . Upon arrival at Gaza , post the Jericho Reg. figure was covered by a local registration label : Gaza-6- Nr. 001012 . One can distinguish the handwritten pen Reg. of Jericho which peeps under the Gaza label . :
The envelope was sent to an addresse in the Gaza Strip . It arrived at the Gaza town sorting center on 3.Jan.95,(earliest known use of this postmark) three days after the official first day .
The Gaza -3- bridge type strike , was a transit cachet . Thereafter the letter was taken to the post office of Gaza -6- branch (postmark of 16.Jan.95) and later , returned to the sender , after another Gaza -3- transit postmark of 4.Feb.95 . . Finally arrival(-return) postmark of Rehovot on front .