[Ellendra]

They get a date when they go out. I don’t remember whether they get anouther date when they go back through the mail.

They'd have to, it's how the machines at the Post Office work.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I get mail all the time that hasn’t been cancelled. Sometimes I remove the stamps and use them over again. But once the mail has been metered, I’m not sure that it goes through the cancellation process. We used to have a special box at the PO for metered mail. It’s gone now, and I gave up my postage meter long ago. It was too expensive to maintain.