My Latest Cover From The UK

Why is the BeeCeester knocking his head?

...not a cancel in sight?...

Yep, I thought of that,
but as keepers of philatelic history
is that cover not just as valid?
That is a genuine cover, travelled through the post
barcoded for the sorter.

Not intending to dampen the irritation of failure to cancel,
just putting forward another perspective.

In years to come, I would think most people will bin their
marker monkeys, and someone in 50 years time will ask
why do these stamps have a big black line through them?

Bee Sees cover is a fine example of a cover that gone through
the sorter, and failed to receive a machine cancel?

It think the stamps are waiting for the gluestick

Think of the loss of postal history, though. Posted where? Posted when? Was that postage paying the correct rate? Your guess is as good as mine.

There should be a UV barcode on the bottom of the back of the envelope with the date JA>> and a letter for the postal code of the sorting plant that first received this envelope when it came into Canada.

Also should be a bar code on the bottom of the front with Bee See's postal code in bar code form.

All this doesn't give the year (if it is there) but it's a start and a help. Annoying to not have a readable cancel anywhere though.

I had just mailed 7 envelopes to myself to get cancels and they came to me with the UV bar codes in great shape front and back but no readable cancels. I think Canada Post has temporarily run out of ordinary ink.

For Bee See's cover above you would hope to have a cancel from Great Britain on there somewhere.

They all seem to be concentrating on the delivery on the mail and not the cancelling of the stamps. Maybe they figure they can't win and have just gone to charging more for stamps and services to make up the projected loss of reused postage by some un-named souls.

Nope, nothing on the back!

I agree with BeeSee !
Gluestick it.

Sadly, this is the norm for RM these days. Later I will scan and post my last couple of arrivals.
No cancel...nothing. It is extremely frustrating.

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