Locals include government and private stamps
By Janet Klug
In the parlance of the Scott catalogs, a stamp listed with an "L" prefix is a local postage stamp.
Locals - local stamps are those, whether issued privately or officially, whose postal validity is restricted to a particular district, route, or service, and are not available for general national or internationals use.
Locals: Stamps valid within a limited area.
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Margin: The surrounding paper on the stamp sheet.
Locals, Agents, Provisionals, Carriers, Expresses, and Forwarders
The period immediately before and during the early years of postage stamps in this country was particularly rich in interesting and often short-lived experiments in how to prepay ...
Locals - Stamps produced by either public or private sources and are only valid within a limited area.
Local Precancels - Stamps cancelled by a local post office.
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Other "locals," or private post adhesives followed, the most important in the United States being the New York Postmasters' Provisional of 1845, which was used as a pattern for the first governmental stamps of 1847.
Bank & Insurance City Post: inscription on locals by Hussey's Post, New York.
Bank Holiday Monday Island: unissued Great Britain cinderella by David Horry, 2001.
Zemstvo Name given to the locals posts and stamps of towns and districts in Russia beyond the scope of the Imperial postal services .
The Penny Post is the journal of the Carriers and Locals Society, and was also the original name of The Cincinnati Post.
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stamps, but much of his work focused on carriers and locals. Cyril dos Passos also wrote on many topics, including the 10-cent and 24-cent (1861-67) first and second issues, grills, and Bank Note issues.
Rick Podwell, #238-7709
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Bureaus, Locals, and MW printed dateds.
Especially in rural areas the thought of closing U.S. post offices is creating real concern among locals who use their post office as a town center, meeting place and hang out for over the fence type shmoozing.
Set of definitive stamps, issued in 1975, which are commonly found precancelled, both as Bureaus (particularly in the decimal range of values, eg 7.7¢, 7.9¢ and 8.4¢) and as locals.
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normal canceling. The indication of stamps being precancels is applied by a post office before the stamps are sold. Precanceled stamps are used by volume mailers who hold a permit to use them. U.S. precancels fall into two categories: 1) Locals have ...
 See also: Stamp, Local, Cover, Used, Catalog
  
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