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Definition: Postmark |
PostmarkNoun1. A cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing. Verb1. Stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "postmark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Synonym: PostmarkSynonym: frank (v). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Postmarks were introduced in the 17th century to help track the delivery quality/speed of the postal service. In the 1800s and early 1900s it was common for letters to receive multiple postmarks indicating the time, date and location of each post office delivering/transporting the letter. (While postmarks are applied almost universally by or under the authority of the official postal department, service or authority, it is at least theoretically possible that under certain conditions specified by the private express statutes in the United States, a privately-carried letter may be cancelled with a private postmark.)
Much of the published work on postmarks covers postmarks from before 1900. (This is perhaps because in the United States so-called fancy cancels were prevalent in this period, with the cancelling device often hand-cut from cork by the postmaster in elaborate shapes such as flags, stars or shapes that were seasonally-appropriate such as turkeys for Thanksgiving). Much work in studying postmarks is needed for 1900 and later.
A special or rare postmark can substantially add to the value of a stamp. (In addition to everyday postmarks there are postmarks indicating the first day of issue of a particular stamp and pictorial cancellations commemorating local events, anniversaries and the like.)
Fewer postmarks are used now than previously, with the advent of meter labels, which indicate the precise date and time of acceptance at the post office, some types of computer vended postage, and computerized postage people can print off their own PCss (called in the United States PC Postage, these services were offered by such companies as Stamps.com and Neopost, Inc.).
A postmark should not be confused with the killer which are lines, bars, etc. used to cancel a postage stamp. Neither should a postmark be confused with pre-cancels (stamps that have been cancelled before the envelope or package to which they are affixed is submitted or deposited for acceptance into the mailstream, they most commonly have taken the form of a pre-printed city name on the stamp), which generally do not indicate a date.
Flight cachets, more or less elaborate rubber-stamps on an envelope indicating on which flight (typically a first flight) a cover has traveled via air mail, are in addition to the postmark and are not postmarks either.
A datestamp is a type of postmark.
The Postmark Award is given to outstanding employees of Canada Post.
Follow this link to see an example of a postmark (large image)
Source: "Collecting those strange Tongan stamps -- on cover," in Scott Stamp Monthly (August 2002)History
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Postmark."
Crosswords: Postmark |
| English words defined with "postmark": date, date stamp ♦ frank ♦ mailing ♦ posting, Postmarked, Postmarking. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Postmark Canada (1958) | |
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Trade | New Zealand | The consignee's mark, including a postmark, should be present, and packages should be numbered unless the shipment is such that the contents of the package can readily be identified without numbers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Postmark" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Postmark" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
postmark | 30 |
digital postmark | 5 |
america postmark | 2 |
electronic postmark | 2 |
emo postmark | 2 |
electronic microsoft postmark | 2 |
cancel postmark pursuit soueverir | 2 |
credit postmark union | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "postmark"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vë vulën postare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ختم البريد, ختم بخاتم البريد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слагам пощенски печат, пощенски печат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 邮戳. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | poštovní razítko, orazítkovat (stamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | poststempel (post office composing stick, post office setting stick), datostempelaftryk (date-stamp impression), datostempel (date stamp, date-stamp impression), datastempeltryk (date-stamp impression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | postmerk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مهرباطله تمبرپست , تمبررابوسیله مهرباطل کردن , اثرمهرتمبر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | postileima. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cachet de la poste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | poststempel (post office composing stick, post office setting stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ταχυδρομική σφραγίδα (postage stamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חותמת "ואר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pecsét (blemish, cachet, gout, seal, signature, signet, spot, stain, stamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | timbro postale, timbrare (clock in, stamp), marca postale, impronta del timbro a calendario (date-stamp impression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 消し印 (cancellation mark), 消印 (cancellation mark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | けしい" (cancellation mark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cowrey post. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostmarkpay tipo de selagem, marca postal, impressão do carimbo datador (date-stamp impression), impressão da marca de dia (date-stamp impression), carimbo postal, carimbo (impress, imprint, rubber stamp, seal, stamp), carimbar (imprint, stamp). (various references) ştampilã poştalã. (various references) штемпелевать (impress). (various references) poštanski žig, staviti poštanski žig. (various references) matasellos. (various references) poststämpel. (various references) posta damgası basmak, posta damgası, damgalamak (brand, cancel, impress, incuse, Mark, print, print on, seal, stamp, stigmatize). (various references) штемпелювати (imprint, stamp), поштовий штемпель. (various references) dấu bưu điện. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "postmark": postmarked, postmarking, postmarks. (additional references) | |
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"Postmark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: postmo, Postnik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "postmark" (pronounced pō"stmÄ'rk) |
| 4 | -m Ä' r k | benchmark, birthmark, earmark, hallmark, landmark, pockmark, trademark, watermark. |
| 3 | -Ä' r k | aardvark, ballpark, matriarch, meadowlark, monarch, oligarch, patriarch, Skylark. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-m-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ostmark. | |
-2 letters: korats, pastor, stroma, taroks, tramps, troaks, tromps. | |
-3 letters: amoks, amort, aport, atoms, karst, karts, korat, makos, marks, marts, moats, moras, morts, okras, parks, parts, porks, ports, prams, praos, prats, proas, proms, prost, ramps, ratos, roams, roast, romps, rotas, sapor, smart, spark, sport, sprat, stamp, stark, stoma, stomp, stork, storm, strap, strop. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-m-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: postmarks. | |
+2 letters: postmarked. | |
+3 letters: postmarking. | |
+5 letters: sportsmanlike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 74 6D 61 72 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... - -- .- .-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s t m a r k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0074 006D 0061 0072 006B |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081858679678477 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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