Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
These came in today, on a package out of Lansing, MI, so it was pen cancelled by one of our own. The others didn't fair too well either, but I didn't have a copy of the Yellowstone issue, so it hurts just a bit more. Not that I like Buffalo's, or anything.
Oh well, I got a pretty decent deal on the stamps inside, so all was not lost. But, I have a feeling that the minute the seller attached the "stamp collecting" stamp, the package was doomed to a nuclear pen strike.
WB
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"I have a feeling that the minute the seller attached the "stamp collecting" stamp, the package was doomed to a nuclear pen strike."
Yes, because the seller probably simply dropped the envelope in a collection box. However, this would not have been if the seller had taken it to a clerk and asked to have the stamps hand canceled.
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Lately a lot of the stamps I receive have scrape marks from drive bys with the sorting machinery. Completely destroys the stamp, ripping he face right off of it!
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That happens often if the stamps are placed too close to the edges of the envelope or if the envelope has a bulge in the center. I try to place the stamps a minimum 1/2 to 1 inch from the edges.
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08:19:15pm
".... However, this would not have been if the seller had taken it to a clerk and asked to have the stamps hand canceled. ...."
Surely that would be a good procedure and lower the chance of postal mutilation. But I have a cover somewhere that was very carefully hand cancelled in Britain showing the cancellation clearly reaching every stamp.
And yet some pathetic excuse for a human felt it was necessary to run a broad band of magic marker over the British stamp Machin pane, from side to side to protect the revenue stream.
Purely vandalism.
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...a bow and arrow, when it came to bringing down the buffalo on this Yellowstone Park issue.
These came in today, on a package out of Lansing, MI, so it was pen cancelled by one of our own. The others didn't fair too well either, but I didn't have a copy of the Yellowstone issue, so it hurts just a bit more. Not that I like Buffalo's, or anything.
Oh well, I got a pretty decent deal on the stamps inside, so all was not lost. But, I have a feeling that the minute the seller attached the "stamp collecting" stamp, the package was doomed to a nuclear pen strike.
WB
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05:47:41pm
re: The Pen Is Mightier Then...
"I have a feeling that the minute the seller attached the "stamp collecting" stamp, the package was doomed to a nuclear pen strike."
Yes, because the seller probably simply dropped the envelope in a collection box. However, this would not have been if the seller had taken it to a clerk and asked to have the stamps hand canceled.
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Lately a lot of the stamps I receive have scrape marks from drive bys with the sorting machinery. Completely destroys the stamp, ripping he face right off of it!
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06:12:27pm
re: The Pen Is Mightier Then...
That happens often if the stamps are placed too close to the edges of the envelope or if the envelope has a bulge in the center. I try to place the stamps a minimum 1/2 to 1 inch from the edges.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
14 Sep 2016
08:19:15pm
re: The Pen Is Mightier Then...
".... However, this would not have been if the seller had taken it to a clerk and asked to have the stamps hand canceled. ...."
Surely that would be a good procedure and lower the chance of postal mutilation. But I have a cover somewhere that was very carefully hand cancelled in Britain showing the cancellation clearly reaching every stamp.
And yet some pathetic excuse for a human felt it was necessary to run a broad band of magic marker over the British stamp Machin pane, from side to side to protect the revenue stream.
Purely vandalism.
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