ISBN 978-1-913015-34-3

Part 1

This covers the postage due stamps (sometimes known as postage due labels) and their usage to receipt payment of the charges paid by the recipient of unpaid or underpaid mail. A fair amount has been written about some specific issues of these postage due stamps, especially some of the colonial issues. This work attempts to cover all the colonial and the first several issues made by the newly independent former colonies. This book traces the parallel evolution of the postage due issues of the three territories, their coming together as the ill fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and the inevitable break up of the Federation after only ten years. Nyasaland became the Republic of Malawi shortly after the break up of the Federation, with Northern Rhodesia following relatively soon afterwards as the Republic of Zambia. However, Southern Rhodesia soon became Rhodesia, and when no agreement could be reached with the British Government on the terms of independence, Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain. After a protracted period of sanctions and armed conflict with guerilla organisations seeking independence, this was finally achieved in 1980, some 16 years after the break up of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Part 2

This offers a preliminary overview of postage stamps used to receipt charges (other than those paid for postage of letters and postcards paid by the public, about which much has been written). Part 2 also includes postage stamps used to receipt charges internally within the post office. The philatelic literature has almost nothing written about the usage of postage stamps for these purposes. Examples of some of these lesser trodden paths of Rhodesia and Nyasaland philately are shown, but in most cases all that has been achieved in this work is to simply draw attention to the existence of such usage of postage stamps. Hopefully this might stimulate sufficient interest amongst the collecting community to discover more about these usages.