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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]
The president with the highest number of shutdown days is Jimmy Carter, who had 56 days in five separate shutdowns from 1977 to 1979. Bill Clinton is third with 26 days in a single year in 1995.
The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.
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 2020 United States Postal Service crisis was a series of events that caused backlogs and delays in the delivery of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020.
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Misapplied duplex cancellation which failed to obliterate the postal stationery indicium. A duplex canceller was a hand stamp used to cancel postage stamps and imprint a dated postmark applied simultaneously with the one device. [1]
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]