Metered Postage From Around The World

India meter, ANNR Rd HPO, Chennai 600002
Pitney Bowes horizontal frank with Wheel of Ashoka at top left.
English at top, Devanagari at bottom.

Very interesting meters Nells250.

This is a 1977 Singapore meter (Neopost "205/2205" multi-value) on a registered letter from the Industrial & Commercial Bank to
Bank Bumiputra Malaysia.



The Industrial & Commercial Bank has since been swallowed up by a larger Singapore bank in 2002;
Bank Bumiputra Malaysia merged with another bank in 1999 & the merged entity became part of the CIMB group in 2005.
The registered mail rate was 75 cents then compared with the current rate of $2.75

A few US meters, some clipped, with stamp collecting slogan cancels. Slogans on meters are often much easier to see on meters than on stamps.

Here's some meter postage from Nottingham, just past it's 60th birthday (March 25, 1952)
A 1d meter was trimmed out and pasted on with the 11d to make the trip to Canada.

New Zealand. Universal 'Multi-value', first used 1953, with double circle town mark.
It has simulated-perforation outer frame & double straight inner frame lines.
Value in L s d. Meter number 139.
Postmarked 'Te Aro'

I am always amazed since coming to SCF the items people collect. I to have a box of Metered Postage stamps or labels, ( all from Canada) that I just couldn"t part with. See another thread on SCF ," Are we horders"? I dont know why I kept them , just didn"t want to throw them away and yet I have no real interest in them.

Ok, Carey you are one of us !!

Back to the US, here's an interesting piece of "election mail", that has the logos and postage paid indicia but a meter stamped over it at the full first class mail rate of postage.

I suspect it was simply a mailing that did not qualify for the "presort rate" as printed on the envelope and therefore the postage meter had to be applied:

I have an envelope full of these to give away or trade if anybody wants them, Most from Canada and the US but some world wide.

I know US bulk mailers get discounts, but I thought this was an exceptionally low rate for what would have cost me at least 65c to mail at the retail level. This meter shows that my auto club can mail stuff to me at a mere 24.2c:



With discounts like that being offered, it's no wonder the US Postal Service is having a financial problem.

Would this be considered printed postage, or postage label, and not metered?

That China (Taiwan) label (original label design issued July 10, 2011) is an ATM label because there is no date on it.

Taiwan 2011, 100th National Day of the Republic of China (Sambar Deer), black imprint of amount (also comes with blue, green or pink imprint).

Black imprints come with upper right corner number from 076 to 090 and 91 to 147 (might be the dispensing machine's number?).

See ATM World:
http://home.scarlet.be/dannyeddy/In...9/111007.htm

Would go good in the FRAMA / ATM thread here
https://goscf.com/t/14497

Airmail etiquette label would go good here, but as is, showing the dated cancel tying it to the cover.
https://goscf.com/t/12126

Choose wisely!

THANKS for that info! I think I am safe with these: