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1929 machine cancellation used to cancel 1d stamp on first flight cover from Nassau to Miami. A cancellation (or cancel for short; French: oblitération) is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes, and colors.
A Cancelled-to-order plate block of the US newspaper boy stamp of 1952. A cancelled to order (also called and abbreviated CTO) postage stamp, philatelic symbol , [1] is a stamp the issuing postal service has cancelled (marked as used), but has not traveled through the post, [2] but instead gets handed back to a stamp collector or dealer.
A machine postmark or machine cancellation is a postmark or cancellation on mail that is applied by a mechanical device rather than with the use of a handstamp. Nearly all machine-cancellation devices apply both postmark and cancellation simultaneously. While some mail is cancelled using handstamps, machine cancellation is ubiquitous, and in ...
Cooling-off period (consumer rights) In consumer rights legislation and practice, a cooling-off period is a period of time following a purchase when the purchaser may choose to cancel a purchase, and return goods which have been supplied, for any reason, and obtain a full refund. [1]
Business letter. A business letter is a letter from one company to another, or such organizations and their customers, clients, or other external parties. The overall style of letter depends on the relationship between the parties concerned. Business letters can have many types of content, for example to request direct information or action ...
Promotional media. Research. v. t. e. Direct marketing is a form of communicating an offer, where organizations communicate directly to a pre-selected [1] customer and supply a method for a direct response. Among practitioners, it is also known as direct response marketing.
A used postage stamp with a pen cancel is usually worth much less than a stamp cancelled using a handstamp or machine. [5] In particular, the additional information from the handstamp is lost and the pen cancel may indicate fiscal (revenue) rather than postal use. Pen cancelling is, however, a common method of cancelling stamps used fiscally.
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 ...