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From time to time covers from the Weimar Republic or Third Reich appear on which part of the postage was paid through bulk mailing arrangments (with the inscription: Frei durch Abloesung Reich) and part by official stamps (for special services, such as express). I can readily understand ordinary postage stamps being used to pay special fees, but I find it difficult to understand why an agency (usually at the national level) that had a bulk mailing agreement with the Reichspost would have official stamps (which were used primarily by state agencies)available at all.
I have the provisions of the 1929 Postordnung on bulk mail and official stamps, but those documents do not seem to answer my question.
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