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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. Less common types include forwarding addresses, routing annotations, warnings, postage due notices and explanations, such as for damaged or delayed mail, and censored or ...
A postmark [1] is a postal marking made on an envelope, parcel, postcard or the like, indicating the place, date and time that the item was delivered into the care of a postal service, or sometimes indicating where and when received or in transit.
Diagram showing placement of the FIM (FIM C in this example) on a reply mailer. The Facing Identification Mark, or FIM, is a bar code designed by the United States Postal Service to assist in the automated processing of mail.
The Post Office eventually adopted the grill, a device consisting of a pattern of tiny pyramidal bumps that would emboss the stamp, breaking up the fibers so that the ink would soak in more deeply, and thus be difficult to clean off. While the patent survives (No. 70,147), much of the actual process of grilling was not well documented, and ...
George Brumell, British Post Office Numbers 1844–1906 (Alcock, Cheltenham 1971). Robert Danzig & David Goldsmith, The Cancellations of the 1841 Penny Red (Philatelic Imprint, London 1991). William Kane, Catalogue of the postal markings of Dublin, c. 1840–1922 (M.P.Giffney, Dublin 1981).
1840 (UK) Postally franked German Air Mail cover (Berlin-Buenos Aires via D-LZ127 Graf Zeppelin (1934)) "Postage" franking is the physical application and presence of postage stamps, or any other markings recognized and accepted by the postal system or systems providing service, which indicate the payment of sufficient fees for the class of service which the item of mail is to be or had been ...
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In one week alone, the San Antonio post office processed more than 75,000 letters, of which they controlled 77 percent (and held 20 percent for the following week). [19] Soldiers checking the mail of prisoners at a prisoner of war camp at Döberitz, Germany, during World War I. Soldiers on the front developed strategies to circumvent censors. [20]