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Detail of a French stamp of 1854 cancelled with a “losange à petits chiffres” number 1152. This number was assigned to Dunkerque. "A11" cancel of Castries, Saint Lucia. Coded postal obliterators are a type of postmarks that had an obliterator encoded with a number, letter or letters, or a combination of these, to identify the post office ...
The first machine flag cancel (preceded by fancy cancels of flags) was used in Boston in November–December 1894. [6] Handstamped cancellations are cancellations added by means of a hand stamping device. Highway post office cancels refers to cancels added in transit by portable mail-handling equipment for sorting mail in trucks. [11]
Postal card mailed from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD, in 1885 with a Leavitt machine cancellation. Thomas Leavitt (1827–1899) patented, along with his brother Martin Leavitt, the first machine in the U.S. that made machine-cancelled postal letters practicable, enabling the United States Post Office to increase the volume of mail it handled, quickening the pace of delivery and allowing ...
The FIM allows the proper facing of mail for cancellation. It also identifies the manner in which postage is paid (e.g., business reply mail or Information Based Indicia (IBI) postage) and whether that business reply mail has a barcode, typically an Intelligent Mail Barcode or the older POSTNET barcode. If the barcode is present, the mail can ...
Service marks provide information to the sender, recipient, or another post office. Advice marks notify about forwarding, missending, letters received in bad condition, letters received too late for delivery by a certain time, or the reason for a delay in mail delivery. (For example, a letter may be marked "snowbank" if snow accumulation not ...
The Railway Mail Service of the United States Post Office Department was a significant mail transportation service in the US from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century. The RMS, or its successor the Postal Transportation Service (PTS), carried the vast majority of letters and packages mailed in the United States from the 1890s until ...
Cork killer obliterating 1886 Grant letter sheet, used in 1892. Numeral killer cancellation of 1865 stamp of Malta.. In philately a killer is a particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, consisting of heavy bars, cork impressions or other crude devices used to cancel postage stamps. [1]
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.