This is an envelope with all of the stamps attached and is hand stamped with the ‘first day of issue’ postmark. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/stamps/con...

The First Day Cover features both the stamps and Winnipeg postmark, issued in October 2004. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/link/stamps/conte...

Pre-print postage instead of using stamps or frank-marks http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/sme/jump2;...

The cutting which was sent to the paper was passed to Benn, who checked the frank on the envelope with the Post Office http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum...

Finally got through - tracked the company down via the frank on the letter http://www.ureader.co.uk/message/1004795.aspx


Was ist ein Stempel?
Wird ein Brief bei der Post abgegeben, bekommt er einen Stempel. Damit wird die Briefmarke entwertet und festgehalten, wann und wo er eingeliefert wurde. http://www.deutschepost.de/dpag?tab=1&skin=lo...

http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com
Main Entry: 4frank
Function: noun
1 a : the signature of the sender on a piece of franked mail serving in place of a postage stamp b : a mark or stamp on a piece of mail indicating postage paid c : a franked envelope or cover
2 : the privilege of sending mail free of charge

Kann es sein, dass "frank" in der Bedeutung "(Post-)stempel" überwiegend BE-Verwendung ist? Aus dem AE ist mir "frank" eher in der Bedeutung "frankfurter" (Würtschen) geläufig.

Franks: Written, hand-stamped, or imprinted markings on the face of the cover indicating that it is carried free of postage. Franking is usually limited to official government correspondence.

Postmark: A mark put on envelopes or other mailing pieces showing the date and location of mailing. http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servle...

Cancellation: A mark placed on a stamp by a postal authority to show that it has been used.
http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servle...

Cancellation: a mark made on a postage stamp to show that it has been used. (Oxford Dictionary of English)

cancellation 3 : a mark made to cancel something (as a postage stamp) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/can...

@Norbert - as you can see from the above, it seems franks are used on government correspondence; I wonder if it's the same in BE as I'm not that familiar with it, either, and it isn't used much by the Post Office. "Frank" is in Merriam-Webster, see above (somewhere!)

Oh, thanks, CM2DD, you were ahead of me already.

Just one note: Nothing related to 'franked' in this sense should be added without marking it BE; the AE equivalent is 'metered,' that is, having a stamp from a postage machine used to process large quantities of mail (usually in businesses), either an ink mark made or an adhesive sticker applied.

I had a long New Entry thread entitled 'metered mail [AE], franked mail [BE] - freigestempelte Sendungen,' but I don't know if this link to it will work:

https://dict.leo.org/cgi-bin/dict/forum.cgi?a...


OT: What's the code for the cgi script that converts the old date format into the new ID-number format? I could build a functional link myself if I could remember the syntax.

The thread seems to have disappeared from the archive, though it's still available in a Google cache. I don't know if that means that Doris has already been through it and added some of the many suggestions in it, or if it's just one more of the many missing old threads.

There are also other previous related discussions, e.g.,

related discussion: Frankieren

related discussion: metered - maschinenfrankiert



*f5* Hi, Norbert, great minds ... (-; On a limited AE use, see my comment about members of Congress in the first thread above, if you can get to it.