postagen.¹

Brit.

/ˈpəʊstɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊstɪdʒ/

Forms: 1500s– postage, 1600s postadge (Scottish).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: post n.³, -age suffix.

Etymology: < post n.³ + -age suffix.

I. Sense relating to the sending of letters, etc.

1. The amount charged or chargeable for the carriage of a letter, parcel, etc.The charge was originally paid to the post messenger, and later to the post office; it is now usually prepaid by means of a postage stamp or equivalent.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for postage

postage1536

post1688

stampage1887

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun]

postage1536

1536 B. Tuke Let. 20 Jan. in MS Titus B.i f. 169^v I pay no thing to ambassaders..for debts postage or other thing but as I have..special warent.

1583 in J. A. Picton Liverpool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. ii. 98 The said stipend paid at Halton is lllj^li xvij^s v^d Deducted viz ffirst for a Debenter xij^d Postage iiij^s x^d [etc.].

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. viii. 119 For want of ready money, they scor'd upon his back, the postage.

1734 J. Vanderlint Money answers All Things 49 It must..fetch more, by all Charges of Freight, and Risque of the Sea, and Postage of Letters, and Commission.

1787 M. Cutler Let. 3 Dec. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 374 To forward the packets to Colonel Platt, as early as may be, free of postage.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 388 The postage increased in proportion to the weight of the packet.

1891 ‘Phil’ Penny Postage Jubilee 31 The postage to Aberdeen from Edinburgh was in 1777 3d.

1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 25/1 (advt.) U.S. $1, $2, $4 and $5 stamps included in our packet of 25 different United States Stamps given to our new approval applicants sending 3c postage.

1992 Independent 17 Nov. 3/2 The £24.95 price-tag for a memento of their heritage includes postage and packing.

2. The carriage, conveyance, or sending of letters and parcels by post.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by land or sea > by post-rider or coach

flying post1548

posting1556

postage1566

dāk1727

pony express1847

pony post1892

1566 in D. W. Crossley Sidney Ironworks Accts. 1541–73 (1975) 220 For postage of letters out of duchlande and Inglande to Andwarpe 000-03-4.

1590 in Acts Privy Council (1899) XIX. 164 Sir John Norreis, knight,..hath made suit unto us to have certein allowaunces for howsrent, howshold stuff, postage and for transportacion booth in his going and coming [to Ireland].

1617 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 465 These little pamphlets I send you for that they be of so easy postage.

1653 Reg. Council State XVI. 458 In the mannageing of the business of the postage of Letters.

1728 R. Hayes Estimate Places for Life 58 The Charges of Postage of Letters.., and Writing Implements, as also for Clerks, Messengers, and Door-keepers, are paid by the Treasury.

1789 Tatler (new ed.) III. 31 (note) See Tat. N^o 117; Note on the postage of a Parcel of Letters.

1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. ii. 22 Never think that those joys can be maintained by the assistance of ocean postage, let it be at never so cheap a rate.

1898 Daily News 13 July 4/7 Each Government..receives all the money on outward postages, and none on inward postages.

1926 P. W. Laidler Tavern of Ocean 137 After the ‘post office stone’ period, postage was restricted to the dispatches sent by the Company.

1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps iv. 59 Jersey and Guernsey stamps were withdrawn on 1 October 1969, and the two islands issued their own stamps. But the regionals remained valid for postage elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

2001 Big Issue 20 Aug. 24 (advt.) Proof of postage or sent email will not be proof of entry.

†3. A postal service, esp. one serving specified places. Obsolete.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun]

pauchle1608

postage1650

mail1654

Royal Mail?1780

snail mail1929

1650 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 21 Mar. 34 839 By direcion and authoritie of the Parliam^t: I erected Postages for the servise of the State.

1657 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 28 May 44 f. 45^v A Bill for the setling of the Postage of England Scotland and Ireland was..read the first time.

1676 E. Chamberlayne Second Part Present State Eng. (ed. 6) 218 The present Postmaster-General..hath annexed and appropriated the Market Towns of England, so well to the respective Postages, that there is no considerable Market Town, but hath an easy and certain Converance [read Conveyance] for the Letters thereof, to and from the said Grand Office [in London].

1749 W. Douglass Summary I. 466 From Piscataqua or Portsmouth, to Philadelphia, is a regular postage.

1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 201 In the year 1653 the postage in England, Scotland, and Ireland, was farmed for ten thousand pounds yearly.

†II. Senses relating to travel.

a. Travel, the means of travel, or the act of travelling, by means of post-horses; (in extended use) any rapid journey or passage. Obsolete.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > rapid

postage1603

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > travelling by means of post-horses

postage1603

posting1756

1603 in 13th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1892) App. iv. 127 The continuance thereof hath drawn with it from this poore town the postage and recourse of merchants..travelling to the sea coast.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 304 All the transient..pleasures that we fondly smack after in this postage of life in this world.

1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. XIII. No. 25. 968 The refusal of a licence [by] the magistrates, to any innkeeper raising the price of postage.

1894 Eng. Benedictines of Ghent 104 He allowed the Abbess..to permit the religious to go out of the inclosure, if some very urgent necessity should arise..the state of the country, and the slow travelling and postage at that time, would explain the necessity for this permission.

b. The charge for hire of a post-horse. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > [noun] > for horse

horse-hire1464

postage1660

1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 35 §5 Three pence..for each Horses hire or postage for every English mile.

1799 T. R. Malthus Jrnl. 1 July (1966) 110 A dispute about the horses, the people wishing to make us pay double shutes (double postage).

5. A stopping place at which fresh post-horses are taken; a posting-house. Obsolete.

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > a relay or change of horses > place where horses changed

postage1603

stage1603

mutation1610

relay1706

1603 in 13th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1892) App. iv. 127 We pray that it would please you to erect a postage here and recommend unto you..James Apleton, to be the postmaster.

Compounds

postage book n. a book in which expenditure on postage is recorded.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > record of postal expenditure

postage book1854

1854 S. W. Crittenden Inductive & Pract. Treat. on Book-keeping 182 Postage-Book, for keeping an account in detail of those smaller expenses which are constantly occurring about an establishment.

1992 J. Paige & G. Paige Hotel Receptionist 131 All mail for despatch should be franked if a franking machine is used, or the stamps used entered into the postage book, which should be kept on the imprest system.

postage currency n. U.S. (now historical) a paper currency of denominations less than a dollar, bearing a design depicting one or more postage stamps, which was issued during the American Civil War to replace the actual postage stamps then being used instead of lower denomination silver coin which was in short supply; see also postal currency n. at postal adj. and n. Compounds, postage-stamp currency n. at postage stamp n. and adj. Compounds 2, fractional currency at fractional adj. 1.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S.

long green1837

wild cat1861

greenback1862

postage currency1862

postage-stamp currency1862

postal currency1862

blueback1863

fractional note1863

greyback1863

yellowback1863

goldback1865

Sherman1892

1862 Chicago Tribune 22 Aug. 1/4 These [notes], as well as the postage currency, are delivered and distributed by the treasurer.

1946 J. T. Adams Album Amer. Hist. III. 135 The Treasury, without Congressional authorization, issued ‘Postage Currency’, which supplied the need for small change.

2004 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 10 Apr. 9 d During the Civil War and a few years thereafter, the U.S. government accepted the use of stamps as currency, even printing a special ‘postage currency’ bearing the designs of stamps.

postage due adj. and adv. (a) adj. (of a stamp or marking) indicating that (partial) payment for delivery is outstanding on receipt of an item of mail; designating mail of this type; (b) adv. with payment outstanding for delivery.

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1893 M. H. Cushing Story of our Post Office 425 The postage due stamps..used..by postmasters or clerks only..are supposed never to come into possession of the public.

1935 Lima (Ohio) News 30 Aug. 2/1 He obtained the money, it is alleged, from the recipients of postage due mail.

1969 P. West Words for Deaf Daughter v. 139 A two-page spread..sent postage-due, incorrectly postal-coded from some college.

1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 47/3 Many postage due markings and military mail items are up by a similar proportion.

2004 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 14 Apr. b1 Tax agencies will refuse returns that arrive postage due.

postage envelope n. an envelope on which the postage has already been paid.

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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > cover or envelope > types of

postage envelope1840

mourning envelope1856

return envelope1856

stamped (and) addressed envelope1873

entire1897

window envelope1910

Mulready1912

flown cover1930

S.A.E.1939

Jiffy bag1956

1840 Times 4 May 5/4 We feel it necessary to apologize..for omitting in our remarks..of Saturday on the new postage envelope all mention of one group of figures.

1860 Handbk. Mod. London (new ed.) 57 Others [sc. presses] are employed in stamping the embossed medallion of the Queen on postage envelopes.

1996 Victorian Soc. Ann. 1995 28/2 The postage envelope was the creation of William Mulready, one of the artists whom Cole was later to employ to illustrate his children's books.

postage label n. now historical (also more fully postage label stamp) = postage stamp n. 1.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp

postage stamp1829

stamp1837

label1839

head1840

queen's head1840

postage label1852

adhesive1854

sticker1863

1852 Rep. Sel. Comm. Postage Label Stamps 1 Are you the Inventor and Patentee of a plan for perforating the sheets of Postage Labels?

1852 Rep. Sel. Comm. Postage Label Stamps 20 To engrave, print, gum, and perforate the postage label stamps.

1883 Stamp-Collecting & Exchange 8/2 There is only one really satisfactory process for mounting postage labels, viz., the now almost universal hinge-system.

1994 Stamp Mag. Nov. 41/4 It seems that the general public were very suspicious of the dangers of licking postage ‘labels’ and Hill was seeking assurance that the gum was not carcinogenic.

postage meter n. North American a machine for stamping letters; = franking machine n.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > franking mark in lieu of stamp > instrument for

postage meter1914

franker1925

franking machine1927

1914 Chicago Tribune 29 Jan. 10/1 A test of a postage meter machine, the first official test in the United States, was made yesterday by officials of the Chicago post-office.

1927 Times 22 Feb. 10/4 Remembering to have read of a franking machine called a postage meter being recently issued to the public, I wrote to the P.M.G.

1972 Times 18 May 27/1 Pitney Bowes..claims to be the world's largest producer and marketer of postage meters and mailing machines.

1990 G. G. Liddy Monkey Handlers iii. 41 Turns out to be like a monitoring room for the lab—bank of TVs on the wall, PCs on the desks,..L-shaped desk, word processor, In-Out trays, postage meter.., stuff like that.

postage-metered adj. (of post) that has been stamped by a postage meter.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [adjective] > franked in lieu of stamp

postage-metered1971

1971 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 26 Feb. 9/2 All postage-metered mail must be either securely tied in bundles with twine or with special mail bands.

1995 Union Leader (Manchester, New Hampsh.) (Nexis) 5 Mar. b1 An indictment charging him and three other men of tampering with postage metered mail in a $4 million scheme to defraud the U.S. Postal Service.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	postage
释义	postagen.¹ Brit. /ˈpəʊstɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstɪdʒ/ Forms: 1500s– postage, 1600s postadge (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: post n.³, -age suffix. Etymology: < post n.³ + -age suffix. I. Sense relating to the sending of letters, etc. 1. The amount charged or chargeable for the carriage of a letter, parcel, etc.The charge was originally paid to the post messenger, and later to the post office; it is now usually prepaid by means of a postage stamp or equivalent. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for postage postage1536 post1688 stampage1887 society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] postage1536 1536 B. Tuke Let. 20 Jan. in MS Titus B.i f. 169^v I pay no thing to ambassaders..for debts postage or other thing but as I have..special warent. 1583 in J. A. Picton Liverpool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. ii. 98 The said stipend paid at Halton is lllj^li xvij^s v^d Deducted viz ffirst for a Debenter xij^d Postage iiij^s x^d [etc.]. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. viii. 119 For want of ready money, they scor'd upon his back, the postage. 1734 J. Vanderlint Money answers All Things 49 It must..fetch more, by all Charges of Freight, and Risque of the Sea, and Postage of Letters, and Commission. 1787 M. Cutler Let. 3 Dec. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 374 To forward the packets to Colonel Platt, as early as may be, free of postage. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 388 The postage increased in proportion to the weight of the packet. 1891 ‘Phil’ Penny Postage Jubilee 31 The postage to Aberdeen from Edinburgh was in 1777 3d. 1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 25/1 (advt.) U.S. $1, $2, $4 and $5 stamps included in our packet of 25 different United States Stamps given to our new approval applicants sending 3c postage. 1992 Independent 17 Nov. 3/2 The £24.95 price-tag for a memento of their heritage includes postage and packing. 2. The carriage, conveyance, or sending of letters and parcels by post. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by land or sea > by post-rider or coach flying post1548 posting1556 postage1566 dāk1727 pony express1847 pony post1892 1566 in D. W. Crossley Sidney Ironworks Accts. 1541–73 (1975) 220 For postage of letters out of duchlande and Inglande to Andwarpe 000-03-4. 1590 in Acts Privy Council (1899) XIX. 164 Sir John Norreis, knight,..hath made suit unto us to have certein allowaunces for howsrent, howshold stuff, postage and for transportacion booth in his going and coming [to Ireland]. 1617 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 465 These little pamphlets I send you for that they be of so easy postage. 1653 Reg. Council State XVI. 458 In the mannageing of the business of the postage of Letters. 1728 R. Hayes Estimate Places for Life 58 The Charges of Postage of Letters.., and Writing Implements, as also for Clerks, Messengers, and Door-keepers, are paid by the Treasury. 1789 Tatler (new ed.) III. 31 (note) See Tat. N^o 117; Note on the postage of a Parcel of Letters. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. ii. 22 Never think that those joys can be maintained by the assistance of ocean postage, let it be at never so cheap a rate. 1898 Daily News 13 July 4/7 Each Government..receives all the money on outward postages, and none on inward postages. 1926 P. W. Laidler Tavern of Ocean 137 After the ‘post office stone’ period, postage was restricted to the dispatches sent by the Company. 1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps iv. 59 Jersey and Guernsey stamps were withdrawn on 1 October 1969, and the two islands issued their own stamps. But the regionals remained valid for postage elsewhere in the United Kingdom. 2001 Big Issue 20 Aug. 24 (advt.) Proof of postage or sent email will not be proof of entry. †3. A postal service, esp. one serving specified places. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] pauchle1608 postage1650 mail1654 Royal Mail?1780 snail mail1929 1650 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 21 Mar. 34 839 By direcion and authoritie of the Parliam^t: I erected Postages for the servise of the State. 1657 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 28 May 44 f. 45^v A Bill for the setling of the Postage of England Scotland and Ireland was..read the first time. 1676 E. Chamberlayne Second Part Present State Eng. (ed. 6) 218 The present Postmaster-General..hath annexed and appropriated the Market Towns of England, so well to the respective Postages, that there is no considerable Market Town, but hath an easy and certain Converance [read Conveyance] for the Letters thereof, to and from the said Grand Office [in London]. 1749 W. Douglass Summary I. 466 From Piscataqua or Portsmouth, to Philadelphia, is a regular postage. 1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 201 In the year 1653 the postage in England, Scotland, and Ireland, was farmed for ten thousand pounds yearly. †II. Senses relating to travel. 4. a. Travel, the means of travel, or the act of travelling, by means of post-horses; (in extended use) any rapid journey or passage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > rapid postage1603 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > travelling by means of post-horses postage1603 posting1756 1603 in 13th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1892) App. iv. 127 The continuance thereof hath drawn with it from this poore town the postage and recourse of merchants..travelling to the sea coast. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 304 All the transient..pleasures that we fondly smack after in this postage of life in this world. 1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. XIII. No. 25. 968 The refusal of a licence [by] the magistrates, to any innkeeper raising the price of postage. 1894 Eng. Benedictines of Ghent 104 He allowed the Abbess..to permit the religious to go out of the inclosure, if some very urgent necessity should arise..the state of the country, and the slow travelling and postage at that time, would explain the necessity for this permission. b. The charge for hire of a post-horse. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > [noun] > for horse horse-hire1464 postage1660 1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 35 §5 Three pence..for each Horses hire or postage for every English mile. 1799 T. R. Malthus Jrnl. 1 July (1966) 110 A dispute about the horses, the people wishing to make us pay double shutes (double postage). 5. A stopping place at which fresh post-horses are taken; a posting-house. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > a relay or change of horses > place where horses changed postage1603 stage1603 mutation1610 relay1706 1603 in 13th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1892) App. iv. 127 We pray that it would please you to erect a postage here and recommend unto you..James Apleton, to be the postmaster. Compounds postage book n. a book in which expenditure on postage is recorded. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > record of postal expenditure postage book1854 1854 S. W. Crittenden Inductive & Pract. Treat. on Book-keeping 182 Postage-Book, for keeping an account in detail of those smaller expenses which are constantly occurring about an establishment. 1992 J. Paige & G. Paige Hotel Receptionist 131 All mail for despatch should be franked if a franking machine is used, or the stamps used entered into the postage book, which should be kept on the imprest system. postage currency n. U.S. (now historical) a paper currency of denominations less than a dollar, bearing a design depicting one or more postage stamps, which was issued during the American Civil War to replace the actual postage stamps then being used instead of lower denomination silver coin which was in short supply; see also postal currency n. at postal adj. and n. Compounds, postage-stamp currency n. at postage stamp n. and adj. Compounds 2, fractional currency at fractional adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. long green1837 wild cat1861 greenback1862 postage currency1862 postage-stamp currency1862 postal currency1862 blueback1863 fractional note1863 greyback1863 yellowback1863 goldback1865 Sherman1892 1862 Chicago Tribune 22 Aug. 1/4 These [notes], as well as the postage currency, are delivered and distributed by the treasurer. 1946 J. T. Adams Album Amer. Hist. III. 135 The Treasury, without Congressional authorization, issued ‘Postage Currency’, which supplied the need for small change. 2004 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 10 Apr. 9 d During the Civil War and a few years thereafter, the U.S. government accepted the use of stamps as currency, even printing a special ‘postage currency’ bearing the designs of stamps. postage due adj. and adv. (a) adj. (of a stamp or marking) indicating that (partial) payment for delivery is outstanding on receipt of an item of mail; designating mail of this type; (b) adv. with payment outstanding for delivery. ΚΠ 1893 M. H. Cushing Story of our Post Office 425 The postage due stamps..used..by postmasters or clerks only..are supposed never to come into possession of the public. 1935 Lima (Ohio) News 30 Aug. 2/1 He obtained the money, it is alleged, from the recipients of postage due mail. 1969 P. West Words for Deaf Daughter v. 139 A two-page spread..sent postage-due, incorrectly postal-coded from some college. 1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 47/3 Many postage due markings and military mail items are up by a similar proportion. 2004 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 14 Apr. b1 Tax agencies will refuse returns that arrive postage due. postage envelope n. an envelope on which the postage has already been paid. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > cover or envelope > types of postage envelope1840 mourning envelope1856 return envelope1856 stamped (and) addressed envelope1873 entire1897 window envelope1910 Mulready1912 flown cover1930 S.A.E.1939 Jiffy bag1956 1840 Times 4 May 5/4 We feel it necessary to apologize..for omitting in our remarks..of Saturday on the new postage envelope all mention of one group of figures. 1860 Handbk. Mod. London (new ed.) 57 Others [sc. presses] are employed in stamping the embossed medallion of the Queen on postage envelopes. 1996 Victorian Soc. Ann. 1995 28/2 The postage envelope was the creation of William Mulready, one of the artists whom Cole was later to employ to illustrate his children's books. postage label n. now historical (also more fully postage label stamp) = postage stamp n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp postage stamp1829 stamp1837 label1839 head1840 queen's head1840 postage label1852 adhesive1854 sticker1863 1852 Rep. Sel. Comm. Postage Label Stamps 1 Are you the Inventor and Patentee of a plan for perforating the sheets of Postage Labels? 1852 Rep. Sel. Comm. Postage Label Stamps 20 To engrave, print, gum, and perforate the postage label stamps. 1883 Stamp-Collecting & Exchange 8/2 There is only one really satisfactory process for mounting postage labels, viz., the now almost universal hinge-system. 1994 Stamp Mag. Nov. 41/4 It seems that the general public were very suspicious of the dangers of licking postage ‘labels’ and Hill was seeking assurance that the gum was not carcinogenic. postage meter n. North American a machine for stamping letters; = franking machine n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > franking mark in lieu of stamp > instrument for postage meter1914 franker1925 franking machine1927 1914 Chicago Tribune 29 Jan. 10/1 A test of a postage meter machine, the first official test in the United States, was made yesterday by officials of the Chicago post-office. 1927 Times 22 Feb. 10/4 Remembering to have read of a franking machine called a postage meter being recently issued to the public, I wrote to the P.M.G. 1972 Times 18 May 27/1 Pitney Bowes..claims to be the world's largest producer and marketer of postage meters and mailing machines. 1990 G. G. Liddy Monkey Handlers iii. 41 Turns out to be like a monitoring room for the lab—bank of TVs on the wall, PCs on the desks,..L-shaped desk, word processor, In-Out trays, postage meter.., stuff like that. postage-metered adj. (of post) that has been stamped by a postage meter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [adjective] > franked in lieu of stamp postage-metered1971 1971 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 26 Feb. 9/2 All postage-metered mail must be either securely tied in bundles with twine or with special mail bands. 1995 Union Leader (Manchester, New Hampsh.) (Nexis) 5 Mar. b1 An indictment charging him and three other men of tampering with postage metered mail in a $4 million scheme to defraud the U.S. Postal Service. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † postagen.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: post n.¹, -age suffix. Etymology: < post n.¹ + -age suffix. Obsolete. rare. The charge made for the mooring of ships to posts in a harbour. Cf. posting n.¹ 3. 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There were three posts as shown in the map of 1738, and three or more posts along the Parlor, which had now been removed, but to which ships were moored. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.¹1536n.²1868
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