Computer Vended Stamps (2012)

Blackjag

Backdating a letter is simply not done by the post office. Your request will put the employee's job in jeopardy.

"In-period" usage for these stamps is not a big deal, as I explained in my previous message. Your covers are philatelic contrivances, interesting, nothing more.

You already have what is important- the stamps! These will be in great demand, far more than a cover dated before January 14, 2013.

Does anyone understand the information contained on the left side of the stamps?

Got my stamps in the mail from canadianphilatelist today. I'm very happy, thank you so much. I thought they where smaller than what they actually are.

Don't remember if it was mentioned, but the stamps are tagged.

Yes it is. Remember the fiasco with the 2010 gold medal Olympic stamps?

BeeSee

When I speak of "post office" I don't mean the National Philatelic Centre. You can't walk up to a clerk at a corporate post office or a Shopper's Drug Mart store and ask that a letter you want to mail should be backdated a few days. Do you not realize the legal consequences of such actions?

Of course dated first day cancellations are available several weeks after a stamp comes out from the National Philatelic Centre. The U.S. post office has been doing this for years..

At the Toronto Dominion Centre post office a collector asked the attendant to backdate a cover to December 12, 2012. She refused the request. It's just common sense and the law.

Lorddenning, I was at the Vancouver Olympics at the Main Corporate Post Office, and collectors were allowed to cancel their own stamps with the Olympic cancel (not a first day cancel), whatever date they wanted on any stamps, and drop them into the mailbox. I saw one guy cancelling stamps with a date before the stamps were issued.

Some times common sense and law do not prevail... especially at drug store and other private post offices. Think of all those back dated Nov 1 Turtles Chocolates packets on ebay.

Bee See

You win!

Not really - I think we all lose when this happens

Darn, I lost and I didn't even participate.

Last set of stamps went to BeeSee...no more sets available from me.

Also glad to see the ones I sent out have started arriving.

Mine arrived yesterday. I was happily surprised by the size (quite large) and the overall appearance. Thanks.

Canada Post posted this on their Facebook page:

Did you know—Canada Post is introducing self-serve kiosks throughout Canada. Users can purchase pre-printed stamps and choose their rate of postage (domestic, U.S., oversized and International). The stamp image, shown here, is pre-printed w...ith secure fluorescent ink on label stock, with the kiosk printing a 2D barcode and a postage amount that can be read by Canada Post cancelling and sorting equipment. Currently, kiosks can be found in Toronto at the Adelaide Post office, 31 Adelaide St E; Station B, 119 Spadina Ave; and The Toronto Domininion Building, 52B - 66 Wellington St W. Find them in London at 387 Wellington Rd. and in Vancouver at 349 West Georgia St. (Main); The Bentall Centre, 595 Burrard Street, and in London Drug Stores at 710 Granville St. and 525 West Broadway. Watch this page for news of more to come as well as details on the OFDC.

Saviez-vous que Postes Canada met à la disposition du public des bornes libre-service. Les utilisateurs peuvent acheter des timbres préimprimés et choisir leur catégorie de tarifs (régime intérieur, États-Unis, courrier surdimensionné et régime international). Le motif du timbre (photo de fraîche date) est préimprimé au moyen d'une encre fluorescente de sécurité. La machine appose l'affranchissement approprié ainsi qu'un code à barres 2D pouvant être lu par l'équipement de traitement de Postes Canada. À l'heure actuelle, des bornes sont installées à Toronto, au bureau de poste d'Adelaide (31 rue Adelaide E.), à la succursale B (119, avenue Spadina) et à l'édifice Toronto Dominion (52B – 66, rue Wellington O.). Vous les trouverez aussi à London, au 387 Wellington Road, et à Vancouver, au 349 rue Georgia Ouest (succ. Main), au Bentall Centre (595, rue Burrard), ainsi que dans les London Drug Stores, au 710 rue Granville et au 525 West Broadway. Visitez cette page pour plus de nouvelles à venir ainsi que pour connaître les détails du pli Premier Jour officiel.

Thanks for the set CP! I have some nice items for you in return .

Since the bar codes are printed by the kiosks, I wonder if they are DIFFERENT from each machine or city?

I am a collector in the US. These are very attractive. It was only very recently that the CVP stamps dispenced by our Automated Postal Center machines have been in color (a holiday mail box design) - earlier ones were in black and white - the first ones were only text and a bar code, then they came up with some black and whaite designs (which we have again now that the mail box ones have been used up). Wish I had enough posts to request some of these Canadian ones.

Well, the letter I mailed to myself on Saturday January 12 arrived today.
No cancellation, no pink processing bar codes front or back.
Absolutely no sign that it ever went through the mail stream.
Pretty disappointed.
I would have been better off to keep the mint stamp.

So now I can either soak off the stamp or just dump the letter back
in a mail box. Wonder how many times it will come back
without any cancellation?

My group of CVP stamps has now arrived, courtesy of canadianphilatelist - thanks very much, highly appreciated!

Ryan