There are a number of reasons why this might not be a listable precancel, however, you never know. I will share the scan with the catalog people and see if I can get an explanation. I am the PSS state editor for NJ, so I'd like to know myself!
This 'cancel' was created by a collector using his own dot-matrix printer. Some were used on NAPC mailings, but cannot be called precancels. Other similar items exist, mostly from (southern) NJ.
Let's see if I understand this correctly. Someone (anyone) could take a sheet of stamps, run it through a printer with a "homemade" precancel of sorts and still use it for legitimate postage? I thought that precancels could only be applied by authorized USPS employees or they would just become invalid as postage.
Perhaps they changed the rules on these "modern" precancels?
Very interesting. I never knew that before. The fact that the post office actually accepts them as postage is what puzzled me, although I guess there is no real proof they were actually used for postage unless they are retained on a postally used cover.
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