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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 is intended for use primarily on preprinted envelopes and postcards and is applied by the company printing the envelopes or postcards, not by the ...
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.
This 1953 cover has a normal postmark and two French service markings. 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.
L.O.W.E.S.T.O.F.T. - Legs Open Wide Enter Slowly To Obtain Full Treatment Terry Pratchett parodied this briefly in his Discworld novel Going Postal . His acronyms included L.A.N.C.R.E. and K.L.A.T.C.H. ( Lancre and Klatch being two locations in the Discworld), although these were never officially expanded.
The first adhesive postage stamp was the Penny Black, issued in 1840 by Great Britain.The postal authorities recognized there must be a method for preventing reuse of the stamps and simultaneously issued handstamps for use to apply cancellations to the stamps on the envelopes as they passed through the postal system. [3]
Write the return address in the top left corner. Write the recipient's address slightly centered on the bottom half of the envelope. Place the stamp in the top right corner.
In Canada, the initialism O.H.M.S. may be written on an envelope instead of using postage stamps for any letters being sent to the House of Commons of Canada or to any member of the Parliament of Canada. [1] Letters sent from lieutenant-governors may also bear the O.H.M.S. mark.
1840 (UK) Postally franked German Air Mail cover (Berlin-Buenos Aires via D-LZ127 Graf Zeppelin (1934)) "Postage" franking is the physical application and presence of postage stamps, or any other markings recognized and accepted by the postal system or systems providing service, which indicate the payment of sufficient fees for the class of service which the item of mail is to be or had been ...