The year 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the first year of operation of the Germany & Colonies Philatelic Society following the amalgamation of the Germany & Colonies Stamp Club (established 1947) and the Stockton German Study Group (1960).
The G&CPS celebrated its inaugural year in 1964 with the first Germania Posta philatelic exhibition held in Stockton.
I Ihave a partial page from what appears to be record kept by a German post office in the 1930s that bears a number of Hindenberg stamps showing monthly payments for an electrical surcharge stemming from someone's use of an electric washer.
How did the Reichspost become involved in collecting such a fee? I have just about every Reichspost regulation from the mid-1920s through the end of World War II, but my library does not help me with this question.
Many thanks, Benjamin R. Beede
