I understand that this is a pre-cancellation stamp cancel, and that many other countries have this pre-cancelled stamp. But how does it work? If it works so well, why don't ALL the stamps have a pre-cancel mark?
The sort of quantities for Bureau precancels in the US are lots of 100,000 or 250,000. These are for companies like Sears Roebuck who send out millions of envelopes and mainly hark back to the days of hand sorting and stamping. What I've never been able to understand is why there are precancelled postage due stamps.
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Posted 07/27/2014 7:08 pm
