Talk:Cancellation (mail)

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

message: I have done a major revision to the article.  I removed a number of statements that were unsourced.  Some I left in, but the article still could use some more work. Ecphora (talk) 13:18, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article revision 

message: There is still too much mail in most places for it to be reasonable for postal workers to inspect each letter/package/etc. to determine if proper postage was applied and that none of it was already cancelled.  This must be done by some machine system that checks for prior cancellation and rejecting those items that bear postage that is so marked already.
I would like to suggest that an explanation of this topic be added to this article.Nutster (talk) 05:36, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have any reliable sources for such information or is it just you own observations. I presume you know original research is not accepted, only sourced information. ww2censor (talk) 15:09, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The above statement is from my observations and conclusions, hence it is in the Talk page instead of the article.  I am hoping that someone with access to verifiable facts, such as published articles from Canada Post, USPS, etc., could add a section to the article covering detecting prior cancellations. Unfortunately, that person is not me.  Nutster (talk) 06:34, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand what your saying but if you can't find such sources, then we probably can't either. If you do find some just post here again. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 11:00, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern detection of cancellations 

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved no consensus in favor of a move (closed by non-admin page mover)  DannyS712 (talk) 05:20, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Cancellation (mail) →  – WP:NATURALDISAMBIG. Also saves two brackets. 122.61.73.44 (talk) 05:25, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  in over 30 years of philately interest, and over 15 years here, I have never heard this term, nor is it known by that suggested term. Stamp cancellation is just a redirect for people who don't know any better. ww2censor (talk) 14:47, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: And I suppose that's exactly because you're into philately, and within context of mail and stamps it's sufficient and reasonable to refer to it as bare cancellation. However, we're the encyclopedia for the broadest audience, and it's only logical that the act of canceling stamps is referred to as "stamp cancellation", exactly to make it WP:RECOGNIZABLE to people who "don't know any better". Having a WP:NATURAL title does not imply that it is exactly the term of art employed by specialists in the field. Nor would such a title mandate that we must use exact expression "stamp cancellation" throughout the article. No such user (talk) 21:14, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We should in fact be using the WP:COMMONNAME and to my mind, with so many people doing handicrafts using rubber stamps, Stamp cancellation can just as easily be a cancellation made on anything with a rubber stamp and not specifically a cancellation applied to a postage stamp. I think, to be very clear, it is best to use a disambiguation suffix, no matter what the choice is. To that end :Cancellation (postage stamp) could work but is longer than the current name :Cancellation (mail), so there is little point in changing it. ww2censor (talk) 18:38, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 January 2021 

message: Is there or was there a law or policy in the U.S. prohibiting the postal service from allowing any cancellation marks to be superimposed on a printed image of a U.S. flag on an envelope or stamp? 2600:1702:1D00:9A80:9918:A1E5:B742:3C1A (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Happens all the time. — kwami (talk) 18:26, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag cancellation