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In the 1870s there was a strong demand for sending Postcards abroad with prepaid reply-postage. As a result of this, the 1878 Paris UPU Congress introduced Letter-Cards with attached prepaid Replycards for a trial period starting July 1st 1879 between Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunis and Germany. The Lisbon 1885 UPU Congress approved the use of these postcards between all member states. The arrangement was repealed in 1969.

In order to cover the demand for prepaid Reply-Letters from abroad, the UPU introduced the International Reply Coupons in 1907. In that respect one might see the Letter-Cards with prepaid Reply-Cards as forerunners of the Reply Coupons.

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