Talk:Franking

message: Franking is one of the largest advantages of incumbency, contributing to a very high reelection rate in the U.S. legislative branch.
That cannot possibly be true.  The allocation of capital that goes to postage has got to be misicule!  If there is no citation, we should remove it.  Franking is a very minor perk of office. Rlove 23:47, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: What's the origin of the term 'franking'? Could be a useful addition to the article.
--Ianboggs 08:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably from french 'franc' meaning free. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frank). Which in turn derives from the Franks, though one source (http://www.allwords.com/word-franking.html) says latin 'francus' --Apoc2400 08:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the term 

message: *Merge --Natrajdr 08:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging with Frank Mail 

message: This part doesn't really make sense. Where are the references? What was the outcome? 
"In the 19th century, as use of the post office increased significantly in Britain, it was expected that anybody with a Parliament connection would get his friends' mail franked." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.197.165.89 (talk) 07:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...would get his friends' mail franked" 

message: To use a franking machine a licence is required and only a few companies can supply franking machines. Is this something that need adding?
--Timsp83 (talk) 20:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suppliers of franking machines 

message: thumb The covers in this image have indicia that says Official Paid - On Her Majesty's Service.  They are not Official Business franking but essentially military free franking.  Do the defintions of the various types of franking in the article adequately address these--Just a question.  BTY - I can provide a nice image of a single instance of one of these if useful for the article.--Mike Cline (talk) 10:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made some additions to the text in a number of places to cover "official paid" franking and postal stationary (including for free franked soldier's mail), etc. An image of a single cover with "Official Paid" franking would fit nicely in the "Official Business" Franking section. (Centpacrr (talk) 15:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Looks good to me.  I'll try and get an image loaded up on Friday when I get back from my current business trip.--Mike Cline (talk) 19:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this type of Military Forces Franking Adequately Addressed 

message: In the Official Business paragraph the following phrase: designated as being for official business of a federal government is probably underinclusive.  Federal has a very specific meaning as an adjective describing a government.  Not all governments are federal and I suspect that Official Business franking is not unique to just federal governments.  In fact the addition of the Official Paid language and image from Great Britain create some contradiction, because Great Britain does not have a federal government.  I would remove the term federal and refer only to governments or postal authorities, unless the term federal is appropriate because you are refering to a specific federal government.--Mike Cline (talk) 13:16, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I had added the word "federal" to indicate that the governments referred to for "official business" were limited to national governments )i.e., those that could also regulate their postal system), as opposed to state, provincial, regional, city, or local governments. I have removed the word "federal" and will give a little more thought on how to express this more clearly, but would also welcome your thoughts on this. (Centpacrr (talk) 13:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I suspected as such.  Unfortunately, I can't think of an immediate generalization about governments that captures the idea and would still be accurate.  On the other hand, I started to puruse this document and think if we refered to Postal Administrations in lieu of governments and such, we would be on solid ground, regardless of how a specific country operated in terms of Official Business.  Its conceivable to me that there may be some governments that indeed have official business type franking below the national level to support provincial and other regional government structures.  But regardless, Official Business franking probably falls under the perview of a Postal Administration.--Mike Cline (talk) 14:27, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, let me ponder that. (Centpacrr (talk) 16:19, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official Business franking probably not unique to Federal Governments 

message: I have made some correction to the line stating that the President of Italy has a franking privilege (which in fact has been abolished in 1999), but I wonder if such an information goes here, shouldn't I simply delete it?
149.132.125.132 (talk) 12:54, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  President of Italy franking privilege 

message: This article states the following with respect to the term "franking":
The article Postage meter suggests (without explicitly stating so) that the term is derived from the name of the inventor of the Franking machine:
A reader writing in to the Wikimedia Foundation notes that these seem contradictory. Can anyone help to clarify this etymology? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:22, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

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