Cinderellas - Do You Know Their Origins?

Top 2 yes, But at work tell you later!

For the first two (Canada Strike Labels) refer to this previous post:

https://goscf.com/t/12476

The last "stamp", is from a 1990 Doonesbury Stamp Album shown here (the particular stamp you show is on the left side of this page):



The cover of the "Stamp Album":

These were actually in use during the Canada Post strike in the "80's" . Below is a thread with more info.

https://goscf.com/t/12476&SearchTerms=strike,label

I didn't realize it until I just looked it up, but apparently that 1990 Doonesbury Stamp Album irked the US Postal Service, as some tried to use those stamp labels for real postage, and the post office issued a warning letter about it. Here's one AP newspaper account:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...057952&hl=en

Thanks for show my last post, via the link, guys!

Great. Now there's another book I HAVE to get!

Actually, you can get that Doonesbury Stamp Album book on ebay for under $10 (actually $9.50, as a buy it now price):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-Doones...t_500wt_1127

That actually is a great price for the Doonesbury album. Most I have seen go for $20-$25.

Finally got it for you.
CANADA POSTAL STRIKE LABELS, these 2 stamps are part of set of 3 issued in 1981 were used for local deliveries & mail to the USA. These had a dull gum, were rouletted in sheets of 18 (3X6).
In the "Strike, Courier & Local Post of the Elizabethan Era, 2nd Ed, 1992" by Earle L. Covert list the $1.00 & $1.85 values as C2 & C3 valued used at $4. & $8. double the price of an unused copy. There were 10,000 of each stamp in the set printed.
The missing stamp is a .50 cent jet airliner, black print on yellow paper. C1 value $1.00 mint, $4.00 used.

Did stamporator disappear?

In just checking ebay, I see that there are other Postal Strike Labels that were used in earlier days, such as this example from 1970:



http://www.ebay.com/itm/CANADA-1970..._1422wt_1110

Anyone know how often they were used and what entity handled the mail during the strikes that would have prompted the need for these labels?

I have that one. In my collection! I picked it up for $1 at a Sunday sale in St. Paul.

Since this thread has the most Doonesbury material in it, I will post here:

May 20, 1990 Sunday comics in the US had a multi-cell panel Doonesbury comic and protest stamps with simulated perforations. Here is a block cut from the paper and one of the protest stamps used on cover with one of the cells as a cachet. (The rate did increase from 25 cents to 29 cents in 1991.)

Postal Strike March 1970

Field Guide cc#5610 Page 158 (1st Ed)
To Precis the catalogue, more than likely a philatelic fabrication
The Field guide author supplies a link to a "tear sheet"

MUSCL (unknown to me ) $7.50

Used for posting mail to Toronto, so it could be forwarded on to US PO's in the West which were not on strike.