Card no 455 - Danielle
A British Elizabeth II double pillar box
Country Card Sent From: USA
Place that Card Sender Lives: Omaha, Nebraska
Date Received: 26th March 2013
Distance Travelled: 4,122 miles
Time Taken: 10 days
Because I don’t postcross with people on the UK I don’t get British pillar boxes. Perhaps I should start including the UK in my postcrossing.
This was the stamp - for once the beautiful new round USA stamp was not obliterated by the franking process.
What does franking mean?
ReplyDeleteFranking is to "Stamp an official mark on (a letter or parcel), especially to indicate that postage has been paid or does not need to be paid." i.e, the inky blob (sometimes done with style and panache by hand in a rural post office but more usually done by a machine that not only obliterates the stamps but half obscures the writing) which is designed to show the date and place that the stamps were cancelled. In other words showing where the card / letter came from. I think it's the same machine that damages cards by scraping them as they pass through.
DeleteI should have simply said it's postmarking but I couldn't think of the word!
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