Canadians Are Smart !

In today's mail, I got a nice Tiger. I posted it in the Canadian forum.

On the envelope was this label ...



It seems to have worked, because my tigers weren't damaged in the mail and no Marker Monkey attacked them

I assume the USPS has a similar card -- but I've never seen one. Have you?

KirkS

I'm sure USPS tried something similar, but they all got obliterated by Sharpies, footprints, or tire treadmarks.

k

Is it like a Post-It Note?

Stamperdude:

No it was just a yellow card - it was TAPED to the envelope but it served its purpose.

Kirk

I doubt the U.S. has such a thing. Had a cover hand canceled not too long ago and asked that it not be placed somewhere where it would be sent through a machine and was told the only way to be sure that it remained the way it was would be to send it in another envelope, which I did. No form was ever offered or even suggested.

I haven't seen a form for the USA, but they do/did have something rather nice. But it's after midnight and I will scan and post it tomorrow. [I have to look for it first]

Londonbus1.....You lot are keeping me up !

Aye!

Those are available at the post office... and the postal clerks generally comply.

David

Full sized (print your own!) philatelic mail wrapper as supplied by the Post Office. I suppose you could cut it and just use half. Three of these will fit on a 8-1/2" x 11" page. On A4 paper you are left with a bit of extra paper.

Also one placed over a regular business #10 envelope showing how, if one addresses the envelope in the correct place (?) how it protects the stamps.

Kirk, were the stamps cancelled first and then the paper attached or was the paper attached a little bit so as to let the clerk lift it up and cancel and then move on?

Remember to take some clear tape along so you can attach this to the envelope, not an overzealous clerk.

Could a person try to change the Canada Post logo and multiple languages to USPS or Royal Mail and try it on an experimental basis after photocopying on yellow paper? Ooh, ooh, who said that?! (looking around).

I mean attach the paper to the envelope, not attach the paper to the overzealous clerk!

Well . . .then again . . .

Good post, Puzzler:

Thanks for showing the entire card; I cropped my scan to show only one side, but it was exactly the same size as the one you posted.

Unlike your example, mine was attached in a way that exposed the stamps. It was taped (by the sender) to the LEFT side of the envelope - so it obscured the return address. Both my address and the stamps were clearly visible when I took the envelope out of the mailbox.

In theory, since the stamps were visible, if it had gone through an automated machine, it would probably have been ruined by a spray cancel.

In my first post, I assumed the US had a similar card; I still don't know for sure, but based on the comments here, I now assume they do not.

Kirk

Never seen or recieved a card from the USA like those Canadian ones.
Nor from anywhere else although they no doubt exist.
Here is something neat though which I managed to find after a long search.



Londonbus1...what else can I find

KirkS, Thanks for the info on how it was mailed and received. I asked because I haven't actually used one yet myself. I was given the wrapper (I call it that) by a stamp collector and I was shown them by a post office clerk at the drug store one day. I have never asked how it is to actually use it. I will now and see what different people say.

Londonbus1, I like your shield / crest a lot better. Where is that from, the US?


They should have a nice one with coats-of-arms and everything. A collectors item even.

Maybe I will make a suggestion.

Yes it is. On piece from USA.

I just got back from the post office (right across the street from my house :-) The postmaster used to work in a philatelic center and is very knowledgeable of the things we on SCF care about.

I showed him the Canadian "wrapper" and he immediately said, "what a great idea; we have nothing like this."

He added (as we know) the USPS is working in the opposite direction -- trying to force everything through the machines; even to the point of surcharging for large, odd-sized, and rigid letters.

USPS: 0
Canada Post: 1

KirkS

P.S. Londonbus -- I'd guess yours is an antique

Kirk,
I cannot tell from the piece, but a guess would be late Forties.
Is that antique ?

Londonbus1.....definitely antique