precanceled
/priˈkænsəld/
adjective
- Of a postage stamp: having been canceled (marked as used) before being sold, typically by a postal authority for bulk mailings.
- You can buy precanceled stamps at the post office for business mail.
- Collectors sometimes seek precanceled stamps from specific cities.
- The company used precanceled stamps to save time on large mailings.
verb
- Past tense of precancel; to cancel a postage stamp before sale.
- The postal service precanceled thousands of stamps for the advertising campaign.
- They precanceled the stamps to speed up the mailing process.
- Last year, the office precanceled all stamps used for bulk newsletters.