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A postage stamp is a small piece of paper attached to mail that indicates that the postage (the cost of sending the mail) has been paid. Because stamps are sent on most mail, the stamp on a received item can be removed and placed on a different piece of mail to be sent, thus reusing the stamp without paying the proper postage.
This 1953 cover has a normal postmark and two French service markings. A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. The most common types are postmarks and cancellations; almost every letter will have those.
Neither should a postmark be confused with overprints generally, or pre-cancels (stamps that have been cancelled before the envelope or package to which they are affixed is submitted or deposited for acceptance into the mailstream, they most commonly have taken the form of a pre-printed city name on the stamp) specifically, which generally do ...
The federal emergency agency might turn down SC residents’ requests for assistance after Hurricane Helene. But that isn’t the end of the story.
This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps, listed by their name, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a short description of their notability. Since the United States Post Office (now United States Postal Service or USPS) issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and ...
A collection of 11 million stamps to represent the lives lost during the Holocaust is part of the new exhibit “A Philatelic Memorial of the Holocaust” at the American Philatelic Society. The ...
A similar scheme was used for British stamps used abroad in its colonies and foreign postal services, with locations being assigned a specific letter followed by a number, such as A01 used in Kingston, Jamaica, or D22 for Venezuela. [5] An 1851 U.S. stamp with a pen cancellation. Early cancellations were all applied by hand, commonly using hand ...
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