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Avis de réception

Type of postal service

An international ''avis de réception'' form for a registered letter from Melbourne to Mexico 1917 (part).

Internal use of AR in 1913 from Perth to Barton, Western Australia.

Avis de réception (English: advice or acknowledgment of receipt) is a postal service returning to the sender a form or card signed by the recipient. This is evidence that the letter was received, and these forms (or cards) are frequently seen with legal endorsements. It had existed under various names in some postal entities as early as the late 18th century, and was adopted by the General Postal Union (GPU) in 1875, and again by its successor, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1879.

Equivalent terms include aviso de recibo, acknowledgment of receipt (Canada), advice of receipt, advice of delivery (UK and much of the Commonwealth), return receipt requested/required/wanted/demanded (US), Rückschein (Germany), ricevuta di ritorno (Italy), zwrotne potwierdzenie odbioru (Poland), aviso de recepción (Salvador 1897 stamps), and many others. The term accusé de réception is sometimes seen, although it is inaccurate. The standard abbreviations are AR and AD.

Collecting

While obscure in some countries (such as Canada, Great Britain, and Australia), AR has long been popular in others, including India, France and its territories, and the United States. There is a great deal of postal history material associated with the AR service: postmarks, AR forms and cards, AR covers, AR covering envelopes for returning AR forms (in use until the early to middle 1920s), rates, and practices. The service is still offered by many national post offices and postal stationery continues to be issued in connection with it.

Gallery

File:Avis de Réception AR mark on stamp of Sudan c. 1903.jpg|An AR mark on a stamp of Sudan. File:AR stamp of Chile 1894.jpg|An AR stamp of Chile, 1894. File:Montenegro 1895 Avis de Réception stamp.jpg|An AR stamp of Montenegro, 1895. File:Bolivar 1903 AR ScH1a.jpg|An AR stamp of Bolivar, 1903 File:Acknowledgment of receipt stamp of Panama.jpg|An AR stamp of Panama, 1904. File:La Poste Avis de réception stationery.jpg|Modern AR stationery of La Poste, France.

References

[http://www.linns.com/howto/refresher/20130513/refreshercourse.aspx ''Challenge of acknowledgment of receipt stamps is use on cover''] by Janet Klug, linns.com, 13 May 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131013030053/http://www.linns.com/howto/refresher/20130513/refreshercourse.aspx Archived here.]
Described in the ''Convention for exchange of postal parcels of the International Postal Union'', reprinted in [https://archive.org/details/cu31924030132470 ''Parcel post in foreign countries''] Washington: [[United States Government Publishing Office. Government Printing Office]], 1912, p. 309.
Patrick, Douglas & Mary. ''The Hodder Stamp Dictionary''. London: [[Hodder & Stoughton]], 1973, p. 16. {{ISBN. 0340171839
"Registration Stamps, but not as we Know Them! Malaysia's 'PosDAFTAR' Registration System" by Len Stanway in ''[[Gibbons Stamp Monthly]]'', Vol. 44, No. 5, October 2013, pp. 132-135.

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