Reply cover mailed free of charge from Post Office of Petrilo (Karditsa) to Athens addressed to CARE, with 4-line handstamp “ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ / ΤΑΧ. ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟΝ ΠΕΤΡΙΛΟΥ / Αριθ. Πρωτ. 271 (χειρόγραφο) / ΕΝ ΠΕΤΡΙΛΩ ΤΗ 20 - 9 - 57 (χειρόγραφο)”, (Kingdom of Greece, Post Office of Petrilo, Protocol Number 271, dated 21.09.1957), franked with Post Office of Petrilo cancel “ΠΕΤΡΙΛΟΝ * 20 IX 57”, plus boxed handstamp ΕΠΙ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΕΙ (against receipt). On reverse faint “ΜΟΥΖΑΚΙΟΝ* 21 ΣΕΠ 57” postmark plus sealed with double circle administrative cachet of Petrilo Post Office, texted “ΤΑΧ. ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟΝ ΠΕΤΡΙΛΟΥ”, in the belt around Coat of Arms in the centre also special information handstamp, for the returning of the parcel receipt, according the Circular of Ministry of Postal Services, Telegraphs and Telephones (TTT). VF and R.
NOTE
CARE, an acronym for Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, which was modified in 1953 to Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, was established on 27.11.1945, initially as a provisional cooperative of 22 political, religious, agricultural cooperatives and American workers’ philanthropic organizations. Its target was to send food to European populations which were starving after the end of the WWII. (Philotelia, 714, January - February 2019, “The humanitarian mission CARE”, by Nikos Mallouchos)