Registered Cover to the EPF

A cover obtained some time ago solely due to the large single ring (diameter = 4.5cm) private handstamp featured on the cover. 

This is a cover sent to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) building in Petaling Jaya. It was misspelled as 'PATELING JAYA' on the cover bearing a registered label from 'AYER TAWAR'. The handstamp, EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND/ 9 45 AM/ 19 AU 65/ REGD.

The location of the registered label, however, did not correspond to the sender's address, which is odd considering that the sender had typed Kuala Lumpur as the address. Perhaps another typo?

Transit of the cover was shown on the back. 

Cover was flipped for easier view

The back of the cover, bearing two 20c blue (ISC155 Perak) tied with a single ring AYER TAWAR/PERAK cds dated 17AUG65 with transit IPOH/PERAK (17AUG65) and arrival single ring PETALING JAYA/SELANGOR cds. The arrival postmarks, there were in fact, two of them, appeared faint with the dates indiscernible - but it would either fall on the 18th or 19th since the first and only discernible digit is '1'. 

The faint PETALING JAYA/SELANGOR arrival postmark.


Just to show you what I meant by PETALING JAYA/SELANGOR. Note that each of the letters were individually inserted hence uniformity in size is way out of the question. 

A little on the EPF building in Petaling Jaya, it served as the headquarters from 1960 to 1995. It overlooks the Federal Highway and has been a landmark for decades. Following the fire in 2018 that had destroyed about 40 per cent of the building, the office was permanently closed in 2019 with its operations resumed at PJX-HM Shah Tower in December 2019.

Image source 


PJX-HM Shah building; the location of the new EPF office in Petaling Jaya

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