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Modern cancellations commonly include the date and post office location where the stamps were mailed, in addition to lines or bars designed to cover the stamp itself. The term " postmark " refers specifically to the part that contains the date and posting location, but the term is often used interchangeably with "cancellation" as it may serve ...
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 ...
US 2-cent stamp of 1870, cancelled with a leaf shape in blue ink. A fancy cancel is a postal cancellation that includes an artistic design.Although the term may be used of modern machine cancellations that include artwork, it primarily refers to the designs carved in cork and used in 19th century post offices of the United 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 ...
Cancelled-to-order "stamps" of Fujairah, one of the United Arab Emirates, showing unobtrusive placement of cancellations in stamp corners A cancelled to order (also called and abbreviated CTO ) postage stamp , philatelic symbol , [ 1 ] is a stamp the issuing postal service has cancelled (marked as used), but has not traveled through the post ...
In Great Britain, the first postmark employed for the cancellation of the then new adhesive postage stamps was the Maltese Cross, so named because of its shape and appearance. This was used in conjunction with a date stamp which was applied, usually to the rear of the letter, which denoted the date of posting.
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 ...
This die was held in place by a handle with an obliteration marker, often oval shaped, off to the right side that was applied over the postage stamp to prevent its reuse. [2] The ink came from an ink pad. In many countries the obliterator part of the canceller was coded, in various ways, to identify the post office.