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Modern Inkjet Cancels

 
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Posted 05/24/2009   10:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add David Giles to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I've been going through a fellow OPS member's stock of used United States to fill-up the more modern part of my new U.S. stamp album. I noticed that the "machine" cancelled spray-on postmarks are a real mess.

Yuck!

David
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Posted 05/24/2009   1:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add WpgLwr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah, but we also use them, David.

Canada Post, I find, is very zealous in their use of them, too. I can't count how many items I've gotten, mailed from outside the country, that wind up with a Canadian inkjet cancel as well as their normal cancels. The net result is a total mess, and stamps that have little more use than as space fillers, if they're even worth soaking off.

It's come to a point where the only way to make sure they don't get the multiple cancel is to change the position of the stamp from the upper corner to lower on the envelope, and just ask for a hand cancel at point of mailing.
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Canada
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Posted 05/24/2009   1:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add David Giles to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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can't count how many items I've gotten, mailed from outside the country, that wind up with a Canadian inkjet cancel as well as their normal cancels. The net result is a total mess, and stamps that have little more use than as space fillers, if they're even worth soaking off.


I hate the Cdn/US cancels on one stamp. I concur... I do not soak them off, just toss them. I do think ours are a little quicker in drying... I notice the US ones smudge. Perhaps I've not seen enough.

I notice the New Zealand spray-on cancels do not smudge.

David
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Posted 05/27/2009   04:06 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add johnstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
less consideration for stamp collectors I guess...
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Canada
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Posted 05/27/2009   12:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add David Giles to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
John:


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less consideration for stamp collectors I guess...


I don't think so... I think it is better automation and faster mail handling. That said, I did receive a letter at work on Monday, with a 54-cent commemorative on the cover. It was neatly cancelled bu the inkjet and the cancel did not smudge.

David
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Posted 05/27/2009   12:21 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add WpgLwr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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...better automation and faster mail handling.


I mailed out a letter to Dianne in New Brunswick and one to nuggethill in Australia, both on the same day.

Dianne got hers first; nuggethill got his only one day later!

Faster mail handling? I seriously doubt it. Typical Canada Post. Perhaps if they weren't so top-heavy with management, they would actually have money to put into better automation.
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Posted 05/28/2009   10:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add quigngt to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
By USPS inkjet cancels, do you mean the ugly as sin cancels that look, to me at least, more like something printed by a dot matrix printer? Can you post a photo?

Marty
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Posted 05/29/2009   6:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kirks to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, Marty -- that's what he means. I don't have a scan handy, but I'll look around.

KirkS
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