Special Handling: A U.S. service providing expeditious handling for fourth-class material.
Special Printing: Reissue of a stamp of current or recent design, often with distinctive color, paper or perforations.
Special handling stamp - a stamp supplementing the fourth-class postage rate so that fourth-class mail was handled as first-class
Speed mail -
Square perforations - small, square holes, which are quite rough in appearance ...
Special handling stamps have been issued by Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the United States. A 2-heller vermilion Lightning special handling stamp (Bosnia and Herzegovina Scott QE1) is shown in Figure 9.
Special Handling:
A U.S. service providing expeditious handling for fourth-class material.
Reissue of a stamp of current or recent design, often with distinctive color, paper or perforations.
Thunderbolts and Mercury: indicating special handling on stamps of Austria.
Thuringen: city in Germany;1945-46.
Thuringia: issued stamps under Russian occupation, 1945-46.
The United States, for instance, has issued stamps for postage due, special delivery, registration, parcel post, special handling, parcel post postage due, newspapers, carriers and airmail. Some of these are in current use.
Use insured mail and delivery confirmations of mailing whenever you send material through the USPS. Your local post office can explain other services available, such as return receipts, registration, special handling, etc.
A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. Postal history is the study of postal systems of the past. It includes the study of rates charged, routes followed, and special handling of letters.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Local, Cover, Postal history
  
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