metered mail

American  

noun

1. mail on which the postage is printed directly on an envelope or label by a machine licensed by the postal service.

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metered mail British  

noun

1. mail franked privately, under licence, with a machine bearing special markings ( meter marks )

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Etymology

Origin of metered mail

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The new rates also include increases in the prices of one-ounce metered mail, to 60 cents from 57 cents, and domestic postcards, to 48 cents from 44 cents.

From New York Times

Prices for metered mail will rise from 53 cents to 57 cents for the first ounce.

From Washington Times

Postal Service doesn’t usually put postmarks on that kind of metered mail, and while its policy is to to add the postmark to mailed ballots, it admits it failed to do so on some envelopes.

From Washington Times

Metered mail doesn’t receive postmarks and clerks received hundreds of ballots on Wednesday and Thursday this week that lack postmarks, he said.

From Washington Times

The back of the book is devoted to an explanation of what he would do about it with designs full size, printed in colors, for the currency of the mythical Republic of Antipodes: a five crown note; a page of postage stamps; a new cancellation stamp; a design for printed stamped envelopes; a metered mail stamp; a page of internal revenue stamps for tobacco and cigarets.

From Time Magazine Archive