mid-nineteenth century mail that traveled across the U.S. by land.

see <#customized=Customized Postage>.

<#uspod=USPOD> employee responsible for receiving and accounting for deliveries of completed stamps from nineteenth century private security printers and sending them to post offices as needed.

a rotary perforator with one long horizontal row of pins and numerous short vertical columns of pins.  This pin format resembles a comb.  A single rotation perforates three sides of each of the stamps in a single row.

die in a <#meter> machine which imprints words or pictures to the left of the <#indicium> and town mark