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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 ...
Part of message obliterated by indelible pencil. Postal censorship is the inspection or examination of mail, most often by governments.It can include opening, reading and total or selective obliteration of letters and their contents, as well as covers, postcards, parcels and other postal packets.
1929 machine cancellation used to cancel 1d stamp on first flight cover from Nassau to Miami. A machine postmark or machine cancellation is a postmark or cancellation on mail that is applied by a mechanical device rather than with the use of a handstamp. Nearly all machine-cancellation devices apply both postmark and cancellation simultaneously.
The data matrix contains such information as amount of postage, origin zip code, destination, mail class, weight, and confirmation/tracking numbers. Examples include: USPS Intelligent Mail barcode, [9] Royal Mail Mailmark [10] and Canada Post Postal Indicia. [11] There are a number of companies offering postage meters, [12] also called franking ...
The first USPS Building Bridges Special Postal Cancellations was issued on May 29, 1996 [3] in partnership with Dan DiMiglio, the USPS Manager of the Pacific Area, Corporate relations, at a special ceremony unveiling the Breast cancer research stamp in Contra Costa County. 60 Representatives from non-profit organizations and coalitions were present in a special presentation with live music and ...
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.