My guess is that the mail clerk in whatever business used the postage meter had simply dialed in the wrong year. It's easy to do and probably has no value above curiosity status. By rights, the USPS could have returned the piece noting the wrong year, but in all likelihood they just let it go through. Since metered mail typically does not require a postmark, I suspect the USPS simply put it through the canceller to confirm the correct year. The USPS (black) postmark would more than likely be the correct year.
Probably someone was still stuck in the previous year (you know how the first week of the year you keep writing down the previous year).
I like it. As wt1 stated, one of these is not a cancel, but metered postage (in red). I do tend to hold on to any cancelled meters I run into, as it is not too often that they are cancelled (at least until I run out of storage space in the attic).
Cancellation errors don't happen that often. I have a few with a cancellation that predates the 1st day of issue. When I do find one, its usually early January when the clerk forgets to gange the year.
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