Old fashioned cigar box lots are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Processing a box lot requires some tedious sorting. I like to sort by country first. After that, I sort each country by approximate time period.
processing and distribution center/facility (P&DC/F)—A central mail facility that processes and dispatches part or all of both incoming mail and outgoing mail for a designated service area.
Processing - Steps that finish a printed stamp sheet such as perforation, trimming, division into panes, and packaging.
Processing: Steps that finish a printed stamp sheet. Processing includes perforation, trimming, dividing the sheet into individual panes, and packaging for distribution.
Donation Processing
The donations we receive allow us to share the joy of stamp collecting. We rely on volunteers to prepare philatelic material that has been donated to the APS for use in programs with children and beginning adult stamp collectors.
Flats - a postal processing term that stands for large envelopes, newsletters, and magazines. To be designated a 'flat', a mail piece must have one dimension that is greater than 6 1/8" high, 11 1/2" long, or 1/4" thick.
[edit] In image processing
A 'line pair in image processing is this: on a test pattern consisting of closely spaced black parallel lines on a white background, a line pair is one black line together with the white space on one side of it.
Rag content paper: cotton fiber usage rather than wood pulp in the manufacture fo envelopes; high rag content envelopes stand up better over a period of time than wood fiber covers, which may contain processing chemicals that eventually discolor ...
This sortation uses specialised automated mail processing machinery. Back to index Bar-coded paper bills A household bill that includes a barcode at the end of the bill to facilitate quick over-the-counter payment.
Sectional Center Facility (SCF) - A postal facility that serves as the processing and distribution center (P&DC) for Post Offices in a designated geographic area as defined by the first three digits of the ZIP Codes of those offices.
From this one small stamp developed a new system of processing and delivering mail, soon to include parcels, special delivery, air mail, bulk mail and various other options.
A Handstamp is any postal marking applied by hand, whether as a cancellation, routing mark, or other processing notice - the Pointing Hand, "Return to Sender", "Received Without Contents".
During processing, an edged tool (die) completely penetrates the stamp paper on all sides of the printed stamp, making possible the removal of the individual stamps from the liner.
This small rectangular stamp developed a new system of processing and delivering mails. It includes transferring parcels, special delivery, air mail, bulk mail and various other options.
Equipment capable of processing printed webs by slitting into individual rows, perforating or die cutting, rolling and packaging coils of stamps.
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Railway Post Office - a postal facility on trains, steamships and street cars for processing mail in transit. The first official RPO route was established in 1864. The initials R.P.O. generally appear in postmarks applied by a Railway Post Office.
OCR - acronym for Optical Character Reader equipment, capable of reading the postal code. Was first installed in Ottawa on January 4, 1972. The machines are located at large Letter Processing Plants (LPP) or Mail Processing Plants (MPP) in each ...
Gutter: The selvage separating panes on a sheet of stamps. The gutter is usually discarded during processing. The gutter may be unprinted, or bear plate numbers, accounting or control numbers, advertising or other words or markings.
Tagging. The impregnation of phosphorescent dies into the paper used to print a stamp. When "read" by special Ultra Violet machines during mail processing, the phosphors determine the face value of the stamp(s) being used to pay postage.
Certified Coin Exchange, the bid/ask real-time coin trading and quotation system owned by the American Teleprocessing Company.
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Bar code A series of vertical full bars and half bars representing the ZIP Code information printed on a mail piece to facilitate automated processing by bar code reader equipment.
High rag content or 100% rag envelopes resist the ravages of time much better than do wood fiber covers, which contain processing chemicals that eventually discolor the paper and make the envelope more brittle. [Back to top] ...
This was done by allowing authorised users to affix stamps already cancelled on to bulk mail, thus avoiding a time-consuming step in processing at the post office.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Trans, Local
  
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