National Postal Museum
Auxiliary handstamp, MISSENT
20th century
Postal clerks used MISSENT handstamps to endorse mail that had been erroneously dispatched, thereby delaying its delivery. The clerk detecting the error would imprint MISSENT to the left of the postmark and then re-dispatch the mail using proper routing to the destination post office.
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