A duplex cancel was a handstamp used to cancel A cancellation is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and prevent its re-use. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes and colors. Modern United States cancellations commonly include the date and post office location where the stamps were mailed, in addition to lines or bars postage stamps A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for postal services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery. Postage stamps are the most popular way of paying for retail mail; alternatives include prepaid-postage envelopes and postage meters. The and imprint a dated postmark A postmark is a postal marking made on a letter, package, postcard or the like indicating the date and time that the item was delivered into the care of the postal service. Modern postmarks are often applied simultaneously with the cancellation or "killer" that marks the postage stamp as having been used (though in some circumstances applied simultaneously with the one device.[1] In the United States, they were first used in the 1860s and use continued into the 1940s.[2]

References

  1. ^ Miller, Rick. "Cover collecting has its own terminology". Linn's Stamp News. http://linnsstampnews.com/howto/refresher/covers_20050627/refreshercourse.aspx. Retrieved on 2009-05-07.
  2. ^ "Glossary of Terms for the Collector of United States Stamps". United States Stamp Society. http://glossary.usstamps.org/glossary5.html. Retrieved on 2009-05-07.
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