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You can do that, at least in USA (even if you are a foreign citizen, living outside USA, like my friend Derwin Mak) and Germany. Let us know if it’s possible in other countries, too.Herndon, VA 20170 MPP #1.In USA, you can get a free permit: Mailer’s Postmark Permit (MPP). See Form 3615 from the United States Postal Service (USPS), the rectangle about Precanceled, NOT about the commercial bulk mailers (only the bulk mailers have to pay an annual fee, not you, a private stamp collector).I am “my own postmaster” in 4 different ZIP codes. You saw above my MPP canceler for Herndon, VA 20170.Here are the other 3:Reston, VA 20190 MPP#1Alexandria, VA 22313, MPP#1Sterling, VA 20165, MPP#67. Maxicard.I have postmarked my domestic and international mail many times, with these 4 MPP cancelers. Postcards, covers, maxicards…I have hundreds of images with them, some of them being actually sent through the mail stream.

Yes.Besides what Len Nadybal answered, there are other situations.CTO= canceled to order. Stamps that were precanceled by the Post in some countries, and sold usually at 25% of the nominal value.Sometimes I cancel stamps or miniature sheets, with the postmarking device from the postal desk or with my own MPP canceler (Mailer’s Postmark Permit, see USPS Form 3615, for philatelic precanceling not bulk mailing).Then I enclose them in transparent pouches and affix the pouches to the big envelope I present to the postal desk on that day of the postmark.I mailed like that to destinations on several continents. Maybe I should upload some images.

Most? Extremely-speaking, it might be an autographed maximum card (maxicard), really sent by mail as a “naked postcard” (not in an envelope/cover), addressed to me, and only to me.The ultimate unique maxicard could consist of 3 unique elements:1) a custom “postcard”. For example, choose a photo that you took, and then print it in only 1 paper copy. Or create a collage/decoupage to qualify as a “postcard”.2) a postage stamp, of which only 1 copy still exists. For that uniqueness, you have to design a personalized stamp, in one of the 60+ countries that offer that option. In USA, currently only stamps dot com and some affiliate websites can do that. Buy a sheet of 20 stamps that you designed, then create a youtube videoclip showing how you destroy 19 of them. Boom! Officially, there’s only 1 copy left in the world. Final, and verifiable.3) a unique postmark. For that, even if you don’t reside in USA you could obtain a free permit MPP (Mailer’s Postmark Permit, USPS Form 3615, see Authorization for Precanceled Stamps-> not the paid version for Bulk Mailers) and then pay some provider for a cancelling device showing your permit number, for that zip code. I have 4 of them.Now, when you mail out your “postcard” as described above, you can also autograph it as its creator. It will have a date in your postmark, and it can be your only mailing on that day. No other use of your MPP canceller with the same date inscribed.Sounds too difficult, or far-fetched?Guess what? I could do that anytime. I already have personalized stamps, in over 50 designs. Postmarking devices - I have 4, as I said. Custom postcards can be easily created.But I don’t have enough incentives now to publicly destroy “all but 1 personalized stamp” from a sheet of 20, or so.That would be the extreme postcard, the perfect trifecta of 3 unique elements, and then some. Autographed, too.But it is much cheaper and easier to relax some of the requirements above.What anybody can do now, with some effort, is to send me a postcard with a concordant stamp (not identical image) on the picture side. Also with a clean postmark on the stamp, on the picture side.I have done this many times, mailing to friends and partners from USA, and from other countries, in various continents.