Postage due stamps kept postmasters honest
By Rick Miller
In the era of stampless letters, it was generally accepted that the recipient would pay the postage on a letter at the time that it was delivered.
Postage Due Stamps Used by the post office to frank postal articles for the sums to be collected on delivery of un-stamped letters, or those which are insufficiently prepaid.
Postal Fiscals Fiscal or revenue stamps authorized for postal use.
POSTAGE DUE STAMPS: Placed on mail to indicate insufficient postage, these stamps were discontinued by the Post Office, and are now obsolete. Cat. Designation: "J"
POSTMARK: Cancellation mark on mail shoiwng date and place of mailing.
*Postage Due Stamp - a stamp indicating a deficiency in postage paid by the recipient. First used in 1879. Scott numbers are prefixed with J.
Postage Rate - the amount of money charged for postage. See also Postal Fee.
Postage due stamps (or "labels", to clarify that they have no value of their own) are not always affixed to individual letters; in the case of business mail, the total due might be summed, ...
The 1879 issue of postage due stamps were precancelled by the New York Post Office throughout its range of values.
1: first stamps, 1894: "Provisorio" surcharge on 2a and 10r values are unofficial and not authorized, 1904: first postage due stamp, 1911, Apr. 2: "Republica" overprint by Lisbon, 1919: first semi-postal stamp, 1999, Dec. 20.
The Australian Commonwealth issued postage due stamps in July 1902 - eleven years before it issued ordinary stamps. Britain did not adopt postage due stamps until 20 April 1914.
Postage due stamps are special stamps applied by a post office to mail with insufficient postage.
Revenue stamps - stamps issued to pay taxes.
postage due stamps are so affected. If you note the water in which you have placed your stamps begins to take color examine the lot and discover just which stamps are leaching color. Remove them.
Stamps Of High Value ...
A Percevoir. Used on French postage due stamps, translated to read "to receive" or "to collect."
Approval. A form of stamp dealing in which the dealer undertakes to send a selection of stamps to a collector subject to his or her approval.
(French) To collect, Inscription on some Postage Due stamps.
Abnormal
Term used for certain stamps produced by De La Rue for Great Britain 1862-1880 from plates which were not put into normal production.
Stamps issued to indicate a penalty for insufficient postage. Postage due stamps are not used to pay postage, yet some issues are known on FDCs. These FDCs were cancelled inadvertently or by favor. [Back to top]
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postal stationery ...
1934, September 25 - The third Assistant Postmaster General ordered all postmasters to cease precanceling postage due stamps.
Once local stamps had been issued, to avoid waste, unused stocks of the AMG-Austria stamps were overprinted "PORTO" and turned over to the newly-established Austrian government for use as postage due stamps.
AMG - VG
Venezia Giulia - 9/22/45 - 9/47 ...
Postage Due stamp - Adhesive label used to collect fees on under paid letters etc..
Postamt - Post Office.
 See also: Stamp, Postage Due, Used, Catalog, Local
  
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