" Notwithstanding the reference in the late Mr. Gisburn's book on these stamps the reason for their issue is still obscure. A number of questions occur to me such as these: Why were Special Delivery stamps required particularly in 1916? What purpose was served by imposing a special charge on correspondence not bearing a specific address? Why was it necessary to send the special overprinted Bahaman stamps (S.G.253) to just four Canadian Post Offices-Ottawa, Toronto, Westmount and Winnipeg? Why could not Canadian Special Delivery stamps which were in contemporary issue have been used for the purpose? I understand that in March 1929 there were still 550 of the original 600 of these stamps in the Nassau Post Office but they were so badly stuck together as to be useless. Is there any record of any of the remaining 50 being used on mail to Canada? One on a cover I would imagine to be a very rare item. Perhaps some member can throw more light on the matter and I should be happy to have him let the rest of us know through the medium of our Bulletin."