Stamp machine (franking cancellation)

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Historic electromechanical stamping machine in St. Louis, Mauritius

Stamping machines are from the Post used postage stamps (. Eg stamps ) machine to devalue. They fulfill the complementary function of the franking machine , which sticks postage stamps or prints corresponding symbols.

With the first machines, the letters still had to be inserted by hand; today's machines are largely automated. The area to be stamped is recognized by luminescent substances in the postage stamps or by luminescent strips on postal stationery.

On February 1, 1904, the first electric stamping machine in Austria was put into operation in the Central Letter Post Office of the Vienna Main Post Office. It was from the Bickerdike system with an average output of 150 letters per minute. At that time such machines were already in use in many cities in America, as well as in Paris and Berlin.

Since the 1990s, inkjet printers have been increasingly used for machine cancellation of postage stamps, since 1992 in Canada, since then also in Sweden, New Zealand, the USA, the United Kingdom (since 1996), Germany (on a trial basis since 2003, generally for large letters since 2010 , for standard and compact letters since 2018) and France (since 2003).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olivier Gervais: Introduction aux barres phosphorescentes .
  2. ↑ Electric stamp machine. In:  Die Zeit , February 3, 1904, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / zei
  3. ↑ Andrew J. Liptak: Inkjet Cancellations . Postal History Corner. July 24, 2013.
  4. ^ Martin Grier: Slogan Postmarks of the UK - 2000-2012 . British Postmark Society, 2013, ISBN 978-0900214400 , p. 8.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Olschimke: Inkjet hand printers replace hand roll stamps . Modern postal history. (see also Philately 448 , October 2014)
  6. ↑ New large letter sorting systems from Siemens (OMS) better known as "GSA New" with an inkjet validation module for large letters . Working group for letter post automation.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Olschimke: The end of the machine stamp . Modern postal history. January 14, 2020.
  8. ↑ Olivier Gervais: Les oblitérations mécaniques .