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Piney Flats, TN 37686 does not even have a hand canceler. They only have a red date stamp.
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I think it is great that you are using those stamps on mail: Let's hope no wacko postal worker ruins them by canceling them a second time with a felt tip marker or ballpoint pen.
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Agreed! Let's hope no Sharpie welding folks take revenge on them. My postal clerk said, these stamps will probably go through with no markings. I said can you at least date stamp them?
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To avoid the dreaded sharpie, get the clerk to hand cancel then use a sheet of protector sellotaped over top to protect them.
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Wow! I never though of that. I'm sure I would get serious stares from the USPS (and other customers) for doing this! haha
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Here is one received a week or so ago that was protected after date stamping, nice touch by the sender, greatly appreciated.
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" .... get the clerk to hand cancel then use a sheet of protector sellotaped over top to protect them. ...."
I've done precisely that on occasion when I sent a parcel to one of my children or grandchildren so that upon delivery they can trim around the cancelled sheetlet, or even when I use a whole ten or twenty stamp set for the postage. Then I get th lightly cancelled stamps back to fill a page in an album.Before I leave the house I tape one edge to the brown Kraft wrapping so that I am reminded of my intentions when I get to the post office. That also speeds up the process at the post office.
On occasion when I have forgotten to bring my large roll of clear packing tape to seal the remaining three sides the local clerks have pleasantly offered their tape roll to finish the process.
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There was a letter in Canadian Stamp News sometime back from a reader who had the cover placed in a protective wrapper after the clerk hand cancelled it and some Canadian postal worker opened it and scribbled indelible ink all over the stamps - resealed it and sent it on for delivery.
Canadian postal workers are vicious when it comes to philatelic mail - they have some problem with it. I am glad I don't live in Canada.
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It was a long time ago, so excuse my memory if the details are imperfect, but I seem to recall someone preparing a letter or parcel similarly and marking the item "Philatelic Mail, Please Hand Cancel".
The mailing arrived having been deliberately vandalized so the sender (Who may have addressed it to himself) to get the valuable stamp cancelled from some particular post office on a certain date, contacted the postal inspectors and filed a complaint. After some time and discussion about the value of the cancelled stamp there was a settlement.
This may have occurred in the mid-seventies, or was simply being re-told then..
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Last year I received two boxes of books from Hong Kong by sea-mail. Five sides of each box were adorned with postage stamps all hand cancelled and then sealed with plastic sheets.
These all arrived in perfect condition and included as part of the franking, were two miniature (souvenir) sheets:
I doubt there are too many of these that carried out their proper postal duty.
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Received this containing my Yang catalogue from Hong Kong, with one miniature sheet on the front:
All cancelled first and then encased in plastic sheets. Just a pity that despite using crisply machined steel date stamps, some of them are applied carelessly.
And another on the back:
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I just received an envelope from The Netherlands. Had a wonderful souvenir sheet on it that was nicely canceled. Then, someone took a sharpie to it. I don't think anyone wants to see that one...
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Not on a parcel but a commercial letter to Kreis Pirna in the former East Germany. The recipient was more interested with its contents, looking at the way the envelope was opened.
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Wow! That one takes me back. I bought that souvenir sheet new at the German post office when I was a kid living in Pirmasens, Germany! Still have it!
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This arrived today from a seller on Hipstamp. Although these appear to be directed (or misdirected ?) at children, full marks for making such an effort. Now I have to find which post office uses the 'KNG' handstamp, in my huge branch office reference books.
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I just wanted to say that I am truly enjoying using some "spare" postage on some of my recent outgoing packages. The Pathfinder Souvenir stamp, Washington 2006, and all of my inverted Jenny stamps have made it onto packages. The postal clerk now just sets me up in the corner, and I work on my boxes. We struck up a great conversation today regarding certain stamps and collecting. Maybe I can make collectors out of the postal workers!
Piney Flats, TN 37686 does not even have a hand canceler. They only have a red date stamp.
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
I think it is great that you are using those stamps on mail: Let's hope no wacko postal worker ruins them by canceling them a second time with a felt tip marker or ballpoint pen.
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Agreed! Let's hope no Sharpie welding folks take revenge on them. My postal clerk said, these stamps will probably go through with no markings. I said can you at least date stamp them?
Don
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
To avoid the dreaded sharpie, get the clerk to hand cancel then use a sheet of protector sellotaped over top to protect them.
Vic
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
Wow! I never though of that. I'm sure I would get serious stares from the USPS (and other customers) for doing this! haha
Don
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
Here is one received a week or so ago that was protected after date stamping, nice touch by the sender, greatly appreciated.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
22 May 2015
02:58:34pm
re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
" .... get the clerk to hand cancel then use a sheet of protector sellotaped over top to protect them. ...."
I've done precisely that on occasion when I sent a parcel to one of my children or grandchildren so that upon delivery they can trim around the cancelled sheetlet, or even when I use a whole ten or twenty stamp set for the postage. Then I get th lightly cancelled stamps back to fill a page in an album.Before I leave the house I tape one edge to the brown Kraft wrapping so that I am reminded of my intentions when I get to the post office. That also speeds up the process at the post office.
On occasion when I have forgotten to bring my large roll of clear packing tape to seal the remaining three sides the local clerks have pleasantly offered their tape roll to finish the process.
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
There was a letter in Canadian Stamp News sometime back from a reader who had the cover placed in a protective wrapper after the clerk hand cancelled it and some Canadian postal worker opened it and scribbled indelible ink all over the stamps - resealed it and sent it on for delivery.
Canadian postal workers are vicious when it comes to philatelic mail - they have some problem with it. I am glad I don't live in Canada.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
26 May 2015
01:13:37am
re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
It was a long time ago, so excuse my memory if the details are imperfect, but I seem to recall someone preparing a letter or parcel similarly and marking the item "Philatelic Mail, Please Hand Cancel".
The mailing arrived having been deliberately vandalized so the sender (Who may have addressed it to himself) to get the valuable stamp cancelled from some particular post office on a certain date, contacted the postal inspectors and filed a complaint. After some time and discussion about the value of the cancelled stamp there was a settlement.
This may have occurred in the mid-seventies, or was simply being re-told then..
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
Last year I received two boxes of books from Hong Kong by sea-mail. Five sides of each box were adorned with postage stamps all hand cancelled and then sealed with plastic sheets.
These all arrived in perfect condition and included as part of the franking, were two miniature (souvenir) sheets:
I doubt there are too many of these that carried out their proper postal duty.
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
Received this containing my Yang catalogue from Hong Kong, with one miniature sheet on the front:
All cancelled first and then encased in plastic sheets. Just a pity that despite using crisply machined steel date stamps, some of them are applied carelessly.
And another on the back:
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
I just received an envelope from The Netherlands. Had a wonderful souvenir sheet on it that was nicely canceled. Then, someone took a sharpie to it. I don't think anyone wants to see that one...
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
Not on a parcel but a commercial letter to Kreis Pirna in the former East Germany. The recipient was more interested with its contents, looking at the way the envelope was opened.
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
Wow! That one takes me back. I bought that souvenir sheet new at the German post office when I was a kid living in Pirmasens, Germany! Still have it!
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re: Satisfaction in using Souvenir sheets on parcels!
This arrived today from a seller on Hipstamp. Although these appear to be directed (or misdirected ?) at children, full marks for making such an effort. Now I have to find which post office uses the 'KNG' handstamp, in my huge branch office reference books.
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