Postage Meter Location System: Fill & Download for Free

The post office is no longer postmarking letters generally. Stamps with dot matrix codes on them are scanned at sorting and forwarding locations as they pass through the mailstream, and the postal service will know if the same stamp gets used twice. I.e., they are "electronically cancelled". This doesn't apply to older, "lick and stick" or self adhesive stamps that have no dot matrix codes. Because the latter are the minority in the mail now, they frequently don't get postmarked. They are risky for the post office due to possibility to reuse them, but newer stamps without dot matrix codes come apart in nlayers when you try to soak them off of envelopes - it becomes obvious that it is a re-used stamp. Older lick and stick stamps can be soaked and reused without detection, but the value of that activiity is so low it's not worth the post office effort to go after single incidents - they'll go after people making a business of it, but they don't even try to collect postage due anymore and mail sent with no stamps or with the "VOID" labels affixed (that read, "This block is not valid postage") that come out of vending machines in post office lobbies.Those labels have a phosphorescent pink or clear stripes on them, and the USPS machines scan and read them and "think" they are regular postage. Five years ago, the machines blocked the stripe by overprinting it with black ink - but the post office turned that off, too.Under current regulations, customers have a right to get a clear dated postmark. But now, after the advent of "IBI" (bar coded stamps) you have to ask at the postal counter for a hand postmark, to be certain that it happens. Metered mail is deemed postmarked when the stamp comes out of the meter machine. It has a date, except in the case of bulk mail which can be franked with meter labels that come out of the meter machine without a date. The date is presumed to be accurate, because the regulations require that someone renting a meter is to put the metered mail into the postal system to day the meter stamps are printed from the machine. Meter users can get a 1/2-cent or so discount for this, because they are saving the post office from having to do it. If a postal employee runs the metered mail through the cancelling machine, you may see a metered piece of mail with a regular postmark on top of it. All sorts of things can occur.Up to a few years ago, the post office issued precanceled stamps that had preprinted bars across them, that bulk mailers could use en-masse to send large quantities of mail at a discount. They'd give these letters to their local post office, which would send them out without ever running them through the postmarking machine. That's another exception to the belief "everything is to be postmarked"

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