Talk:Cancellation (mail)

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[edit] 2003 posts

Not sure how to approach inclusion (in this article or another?) of somewhat obscure subject of private overprints, which are to be distinguished from private cancellations. Can anyone tell me about the private overprint of the recent statehood of Florida anniversary U.S. stamp? --Daniel C. Boyer 21:58, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

You could try asking at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. Angela
Thank you. --Daniel C. Boyer 22:12, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I wonder if there should be a separate article specifically on the killer. In my opinion this is an interesting subject about which there is a lot of information. --Daniel C. Boyer 13:44, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Well, general killer info should be in this article, since it's a synonym. This and the postmark article confusingly mix up their terms, I had to go look them up. The top of this article should say that people often call the combination of postmark and killer the "cancellation", then the rest of the article is free to discuss all the kinds of killers at length (with the links to fancy cancel etc for specialized subtopics). Stan 01:29, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] "The United States Postal Service regulations prohibit the use of slogans or pictorial material in regular hand-stamped cancellations (whether with or without killers)"

Some clarification on this would be useful, particularly since there seem to be violations such as the Faneuil Hall postmark. --Daniel C. Boyer 19:40, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I've merged Pictorial cancellation to Cancellation. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-26 04:40Z

Yeah, but you did not copyedit the existing information on pictorial cancellations with the newly pasted text. That was only half the job and I did not do it the other day for that very reason. There is some integration still to be done. ww2censor 23:26, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I've integrated the text better now. (BTW, I think you meant "edit", not "copyedit".) If you have any further suggestions, please go ahead and make the changes. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-01 06:59Z
Great, thanks. BTW you are likely correct. I will make the inline references better by creating a ref section instead of direct inline link ref. I think that is better and possible in the guidelines. Cheers ww2censor 13:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)