Meter stamp
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Metered Mail Mail that is automatically franked by a machine. The impression, which is a combined ‘postage stamp and postmark', marks the amount of postage paid and the date of posting, while the automatic machine ‘ ...
Meter: The mechanical or digital device that creates a valid denominated postage imprint known as a meter stamp. Postage is prepaid to the regulating postal authority. Meters were authorized by the UPU in 1920.
Meter - 1) a machine that imprints evidence of payment of postage. 2) the imprint of such a machine.
Micro-printing - extremely small words, or acronyms printed on some modern stamps as a security measure.
Meter Stamp. Government permit of various face value and printed by machine on a piece of adhesive paper (or on the actual envelope) to indicate postage paid. Invented by the Pitney-Bowes company in the early 1900s.
meter reply mail (MRM)—A preprinted return envelope, card, or label provided by a meter license holder as a courtesy to customers on which the postage is prepaid with a meter stamp. These pieces must have a specific address and format.
Metered Mail: Mail franked by a postage meter, a device that automatically imprints the proper postal rate with a distinctive imprint in the upper right-hand area of the envelope. Meters were authorized by the UPU in 1920.
Meter - The device that creates meter stamps.
Microperfs - Miniature perforations.
Microprinting - Extremely small captions added as a security measure to the designs of certain U.S. stamps.
Meter Impressions
The printed impressions left by postage meters to show prepayment of all classes of mail. Meters were introduced in 1903 and have gained such wide-spread use that few businesses still use postage stamps.
Postage Meter - A device that can print one or more denominations of postage onto a mailpiece or meter tape. It is available for lease only from designated manufacturers. ...
Metered mail - mail whose postage is paid by a machine that tracks the amount of postage applied by the machines ...
Oval meter: meters introduced in Jan. 1922 capable of printing only one fixed denomination.
Oval pattern: 1: used in Ceylon,1855-67, complicated oval design to prevent washing of stamp for reuse.
The stamps themselves are handled with stamp tongs so as preserve them from large, clumsy, and possibly greasy fingers. A strong magnifier reveals details of paper and printing, while the odontometer or perforation gauge helps ...
The only special equipment you will need is a shortwave ultraviolet lamp to see the tagging and a precise millimeter gauge for measuring the designs. Be sure you use a shortwave lamp made for detecting tagging on U.S.stamps.
When the Society signed this lease more than five years ago, there wasn't an affordable sealer available without a postage meter. For five years we have been paying fees for maintenance and technology updates to a postage meter we've never used.
The number of such holes along a 2-centimeter distance on a stamp's edge is often an identifying characteristic. The perforation may dramatically influence the value of a stamp.
As a step toward this goal Pitney-Bowes, postage meter manufacturers in Stamford, Conn., proposed a meter marking as shown on the jacket of this book.
A term referring to the diameter of a coin in a series. The use of this term implies that there is a large diameter coin with the same motif.
SMS
Acronym for Special Mint Set ...
A Ceadúnas is a mailing licence which enables you send mail without the use
of stamps or a meter mark. Customers must apply for a Ceadúnas before use
and must print the Ceadúnas according to established guidelines.
Don't be discouraged when you notice that many senders use postage meters or the imprint "Bulk Rate Postage Paid' on their envelopes to enjoy a better postal rate or to keep from affixing stamps.
This decline was due partly to the postage meter, which gradually replaced stamps on parcel post, and partly to bulk-rate printed indicia's which replaced stamps on bulk mail.
Automatic stamps are produced individually by a machine on demand in a denomination selected by the customer. There normally is no date on the stamp, like there is on a meter strip. Also called ATM, from the German word Automatenmarken.
A perfin is a postage stamp that has been perforated with distinctive marks such as initials (hence the contraction perfin from perforated initials) to discourage theft by employees. The practice ceased with the introduction of postal meters.
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