*Post Card - a privately produced mailing card, as opposed to a Post Office produced postal card. A post card does not have an indicium.
Post Office Department - see United States Post Office Department.
Post Office Seal - see Seal.
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Post Card - a card used to send a message via the mail. The Post Office Department authorized the use of privately-created postcards in 1898. These cards usually included an image on one side and space for a message and an address on the other.
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WIPA 1933
Mail Coach - undated
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I have accumulated images of WIPA postal cards with NINETEEN DIFFERENT preprinted postal indicia (below).
post card
A privately produced card usually bearing an illustration on one side and spaces for message, address and postage on the other. [Back to top]
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A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. In some places, it is possible to send them for a lower fee than for a letter.
between German colonies in the north, and British colonies in the south; currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound, 100 cents = 1 dollar (1966), 100 toea = 1 kina (1975) 1880s: German New Guinea Company issued prepaid parcel post cards ...
This might include air mail, special delivery, semi-official, official, postage due, local issues, stamped envelopes, post cards, hunting permit stamps, essays, and revenue stamps.
Bahnhof - Railway station
Bahnpost - Railway ...
The "Private Mailing Card Period" and the "Post Card Period" are sometimes lumped together and called the "Undivided Back Period," with "back" meaning the address side.
I know, maybe you see the whole post card and mailing usage as a thing that could not be that much of a big deal, and possibly something that was done in the past, and I completely understand that, ...
The first topic the Guide covers is the 2008 program, with pictures of all the new issues, including definitives, stamped envelopes and post cards. This listing also includes that issue dates and locations.
When a collector buys a postage stamp or post card on its first day of release, a special “first day of issue" postmark is applied. Envelopes or mailed items with this kind of postal cancel are called first day covers.
Postal stationery - collecting post cards, envelopes, covers etc. The collection can include registration mail, acknowledgements, certificates of posting and telegraph mail.
Postage Dues, Ducks, Envelopes, Post Cards, EFOs
U.S. Covers
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Back-Of-Book: Stamps that are normally listed in the back of the catalogue after the regular stamp issues. This might include air mail, special delivery, semi-official, official, postage due, local issues, stamped envelopes, post cards, ...
Mail most often found with the Too Late markings are single rate letters, post cards and postal stationery envelopes. The exhibit details all marking attributes, and presents differences in marking types and condition as degraded in use.
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