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A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. The most common types are postmarks and cancellations ; almost every letter will have those. Less common types include forwarding addresses, routing annotations, warnings, postage due notices and explanations, such as for damaged or delayed mail, and censored or ...
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The Facing Identification Mark, or FIM, is a bar code designed by the United States Postal Service to assist in the automated processing of mail. The FIM is a set of vertical bars printed on the envelope or postcard near the upper edge, just to the left of the postage area (the area where the postage stamp or its equivalent is placed). The FIM ...
A barcode identifier is assigned by the United States Postal Service to encode the presort identification that is currently printed in human-readable form on the optional endorsement line (OEL). It is also available for future United States Postal Service use. This is accomplished using two digits, with the second digit in the range of 0–4.
A postmark [1] is a postal marking made on an envelope, parcel, postcard or the like, indicating the place, date and time that the item was delivered into the care of a postal service, or sometimes indicating where and when received or in transit.
Machine-readable postal marking may refer to: POSTNET, Postal Numeric Encoding Technique, which encodes ZIP codes, ZIP+4 codes and (optionally) delivery points; Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique, PLANET, barcode used by the U.S. Postal Service; Facing Identification Mark, a bar code designed by the U.S. Postal Service
For example, forgers have fabricated many supposedly-valuable postal covers by adding genuine stamps and forged postal markings to pre-stamp covers. [29] A cover can be shown to be genuine if a genuine cancellation "ties" the stamp or stamps to the cover or, in other words, if a genuine cancellation runs continuously over the stamp and adjacent ...
Coded postal obliterators are a type of postmarks that had an obliterator encoded with a number, letter or letters, or a combination of these, to identify the post office of origin. They were introduced in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1843, three years after the first stamp was issued.