"Love Your Heart" Ink Jet Slogan Cancellation

I thought I'd start a new thread on this subject.

Here's one I received today, dated 02/13/2012:



...and I "borrowed" this one from Panda.Bear's post on the Love Stamp thread:



Are there any other examples out there to compare them to? Who has the most readable example? Who has the earliest dated one? (I understand they first started appearing back in late January.)

I need to get ahold of some of those. I am in Pharmaceutical Sales and have several cardiology drugs that I currently promote. That would be really neat. Are they a regional cancel?

Where can I get my hands on these?

Thanks,
BT

The cancels are sporadic but available nationwide. Although not all postal centers use them, or so it would appear.

I've seen examples from as far away as Alaska to North Dakota to the Northeast (PA, NY and MA). In my area, one regional postal center uses them and another does not. As far as I know, there is no specific way to insure that you would get this particular spray-on cancellation or not. Legibility is also an issue, as some of these are virtually illegible and others are reasonably clear.

By the way, if you haven't figured it out already the slogan above the EKG reads "LOVE YOUR HEART" and below the EKG "WORK OUT".

While it is assumed this spray-on cancel is used because it is in line with the recently issued Heart Health Stamp, the EKU of the cancel goes back to late January, well before the Heart Health Stamp was issued.

Its amazing that these cancels can be so unreadable. I've seen about 4 or 5 here in Minnesota and it is really hard to make out what they say.

I agree. It's also been suggested that it is pointless that the USPS even bother with spray-on slogan cancels for that very reason.

As a practical matter, I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to make these ink jet cancels more legible. My guess is the USPS is printing them (for economy sake) in a sort of 'draft mode', very similar as what most of us have on our home ink jet printers. As a result, the legibility, sharpness and clarity of the cancellation suffers. I guess in the eyes of the USPS, they look at it as a way to save money on ink and these "ugly" cancels accomplish their goal of cancelling a stamp to prevent re-use, which is the whole point of the cancellation in the first place.