Questions On Cover

First of all it isn't cancelled. Does anyone know why it wasn't?

And that old "F" stamp rate stamp on the left...Were they wanting to get that rate of postage after putting over 25 cents postage on the envelope? Would that work? There is a current thread on something like this but I couldn't remember what or where it was. A forever stamp is worth 45 cents. Surely you can't get 74 cents postage by putting that stamp on an envelope. Right?

Forgive me but I am woefully lacking in knowledge of how the USPS does things in the modern era.



-IBFS

Before we can comment we will need either a scan of the cover in question or a link to it.

#%$@&! I forgot to post the scan. pffft.




-IBFS

There's 49 cents on the cover. The far left stamp is a make-up rate stamp and only has a face value of four cents. As for why it's not cancelled - it happens all the time. It just gets processed without a postmark and a worker didn't catch it.

Actually the cover does have a spray-on postmark (inverted at bottom) but without the killer bars ... probably it was entered into the system upside down. I suspect that the reason why the postmark doesn't have the bars is that it may have been manually reviewed before processing since most or all of the stamps were not "tagged" and as a result the cover was not able to be processed in the system by full automation.

The Coral Reef stamp was issued tagged. Regardless, skips happen frequently anyway.