1 June 1861 1st Day Confederate Postal service MOBILE-MACON Civil War mail cover

Description

1st Day of the Confederate Postal System
: stampless JUN 1 1861
postmarked cover from MOBILE Alabama to Dr. W. Hopkins of MACON Mississippi, tied by near-full strike of
full-dated
double ringed datestamp & boxed PAID 5 handstamp (CSA cat type B -
similar but slightly different "5" digit
); professionally rebacked with original cover backside;
most of the original gum is intact
-
possibly mailed unsealed
. The postage rate used here was the
new 5 cent domestic letter rate
for distances of under 500 miles,
replacing the US 3 cent rate
which was in effect until 31 May.
From of 1 June
, with the Confederacy's postal service's decision to assume control of postal services,
all US postal services ceased in the South
(the Union reciprocated this postal suspension on 7 June). As such,
as of this date too, the regular postal service in the South was limited to the Confederacy's territory only
- and mail beyond its borders had to be serviced by a number of special & complex mail services/routes.
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