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Postal shipment quality: subjective assessment of the quality of all properties of a postal shipment

Faultles postal shipment: postal shipment without conditional of manufacturing or wrong handling originated quality defect

Faulty postal shipment: common term for a postal shipment with conditional of manu-facturing or wrong handling originated qual-ity defect

Faultles opened postal shipment: envelope opened with a sharp object (e.g. knife) without any defect in the opening

Faulty opened postal shipment: envelope opened with a blunt object (e.g. finger) and therefore with a quality defect

Damaged postal shipment: postal shipment with quality defect originated by wrong handling

Transport tracks: general term for quality defects that occurred during the transport of a postal shipment

Labeled postal shipment: postal shipment with private handwritten text which can not removed traceless

Postal shipment with resounding print: printing ink bleeding through the paper of a postcard (e.g. oily print)

Postal shipment with piercing seal: postal shipment with oily or greasy sealing compound that breaks through the paper

Postal shipment with rust stain: postal shipment with deep-seated contamination caused by iron oxidation

Postal shipment with slight crease: postal shipment with slight creased paper without damaged paper structure

Postal shipment with break: postal ship-ment with heavy creased paper with dam-aged paper structure

Postal shipment with tear: postal ship-ment with crack caused by separate forcibly

Postal shipment with round corner: postal shipment with rounded corners caused by wrong handling

Postal shipment with document punch: postal shipment with pierced round holes for filing e.g. in a binder

Postal shipment open on three sides: postal shipment that was opened on three sides e.g. to show the two-sided franking at a stamp exhibition

Contaminated postal shipment: postal shipment with deep-seated contamination due to undesirable material components (e.g. stains)

Bleach out postal shipment: postal ship-ment which lost his colour intensity by light

Discoloured postal shipment: postal ship-ment with changed colour by light or chem-ical reaction