Barss Corner gets first custom postmark

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It's taken over a century, but the post office in Barss Corner, N.S., is finally able to make its mark with pictures on mail arriving for local residents and postmark collectors alike.The tiny rural post office in Lunenburg County that serves about 500 addresses held a launch ceremony at the end of April to celebrate joining several other Nova Scotia communities that have pictorial postmarks, also known as cancellation stamps.The postmark is an ink stamp used to indicate the date that a piece of
 
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