High-value Zaire inflation cover

Hi Jeff!

Nice cover, and my 2018 Scott catalogue  lists the stamp on your Zaire cover (Scott 1333) as having a catalogue value of $11.50, around 2% more than your $11.25 "value."  I counted 49 stamps on the front, but there must be fifty according to your calculations.  Either way it seems Zaire had about a fifty-fold increase in postal rates from around 1980 to whenever your cover was mailed (I'd guess 1992 but it's hard to see the cancellation date; it also looks like it could be 2001)

Inflation covers are my primary area of interest, although I concentrate on German covers from their hyper-inflation era of 1923.

Most other countries might qualify, especially Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Russia, Argentina, Italy, even the USA if you consider that it currently takes nearly nineteen times as much face value of postage to mail a standard letter than it did in 1958 (55 cents compared to 3 cents).   

Although the USA may not technically qualify as having hyper-inflation,  (nearly a 20-fold postage rate increase in 60 years, compared to a fifty-fold increase in 20 or so years for your Zaire cover), it's still very much a great example of the effects of inflation on postal rates when we get a package, or even a regular-weight letter, arrive with many multiples of older stamps:



Who knows what future philatelists in the year 2060 or even 2040 will wonder in amazement, if there are still any around, when they see such covers franked with so many stamps!!!