Canada Modern Pocon Postmarks / Cancels

370215 . . . . . (Canada POCON Postmark Number)
TORONTO B P S
119 SPADINA AVE .(City, Town or Office Name, Province)
M5V 2L0. . . (Postal Code)
2013 -02- 01 . . (2013 Feb. 1 ) (Date YYYY -MM- DD)
2013 -02- 15 . . (2013 Feb. 15) (Date YYYY -MM- DD)
this post office's name is "Toronto Station B"
the postmark isn't clear, so I post two pictures, hope can help to see.

Thank you chris307, welcome to Stamp Community also!
Nice to see the new Computer Vended Postage (CVP) maple leaf stamp.

Your post office postmark is also known on the Canada Post web site (Find A Post Office http://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/a...318429999998 ) as:

TORONTO STN B
119 SPADINA AVE
TORONTO ON M5V 2L0
End of URL = 370215 = POCON

The B.P.S. would probably be B. = Station B or STN B and the P.S. would be Postal Station, so B Postal Station altogether, according to Canada Post's glossary in English. I will add the P.S. to the abbreviations at the beginning of this thread.

272770
MALARTIC, QC, J0Y 1ZO
2011-01-12

272825
MARTINVILLE, QC, J0B2A0
2011-01-14

270105
ASBESTOS, QC, J1T3A0
2011-01-13

I have noticed recently that the Canada Post Xpresspost computer-generated labels stuck on postings / mailings have the POCON number on them as the first 8 characters in the number.

So far, I have not seen that any Registered post labels have any POCON numbers.

The newer Meter stamps / labels having a gray stripe along the upper edge and a white stripe along the bottom edge also have the POCON number on them, as the last number printed on the lower right-hand corner.


POCONs are also found on the tags left behind by the delivery person when you are not home, for the Post Office where the item will be held at for pick-up by you, and on the postcard mailed to you by the sortation plant and the postcard mailed to you be the receiving Post Office.

All of these could be collected, if politely asked for, as some postcards are taken by the Post Office when you ask for your parcel / envelope and are then discarded in the trash.

These are all confirmations that the Post Office mentioned on a cancel has the same Postal Code and / or town name on the same date sometimes.


I have a couple of larger envelopes coming that have examples of meters and Xpresspost labels, along with the POCON cancelling stamping on the envelope that I will post when I have them.

Here is an early POCON postmark that I am having problems with 100% identifying.



I think that Ihave some of the information, but I will hold back stating it so that I do not influence anyone.

Any help would be welcomed.

Edited: Thanks to 'Berliner':

POCON # 690430
Town: Cape Dorset, NWT
Postal Code: X0A-0C0
Date 18th July, 1982

Thanks,
- stamporator -

That postmark came from Cape Dorset, N.W.T. Cape Dorset is now part of Nunavut.

The POCON number for that office at the time was 690430.

646946
Squamish, B.C., V0N 3G0
Nove 4 1980

Puzzler,it's been almost one year to the day since you started
this interesting and useful thread.

Fourteen pages and still going strong.

CONGRATULATIONS

Here is one from my hometown to start off the new year.

POCON
97187
NEWMARKET,ON
L3Y 7C0



Edited as requested
OK puzzler thats the smallest setting on Photobucket

POCON
103449
DIEPPE,NB

No postal code on the postmark.



Edited as requested
OK puzzler thats the smallest setting on Photobucket

This one is interesting because at first glance I wasn't sure
of the Post Office location.



OK the sender is from Lord's Cove New Brunswick which is a
little village on a little island close to the US border.

On the postmark it says 190 ROUTE 772 E5V 2J0.
When you go to the Canada Post site and enter E5V 2J0 you get
The postal code cannot be found Nothing.

Go to Google and you get businesses in Lord's Cove and this

Canada Post Lambertville Address

Richardson
190 Route 772
Lambertville
New Brunswick
E5V 2J0
Telephone: 1-800-267-1177


So it appears that Lambertville is a tiny hamlet just south of
Lord's Cove on the same island.

It might interest American members that just south of this
island is Campobello Island where FDR had a summer retreat
"cottage" of 34 rooms. Wow some cottage, wish I had one.


Almost forgot about the POCON. Hard to make out the black
numbers on the black background.

09003? or is that an 8 ?


Edited as requested
OK puzzler thats the smallest setting on Photobucket

Alanl,
I love your Quamish, BC POCON, without frame around it.


Lithograving,
Thank you very much for your wonderful contributions.
But I cannot see most of them because I am always on a comuter with only a phone line to communicate with the internet with.

Photobucket is great but they only allow a small size to be downloaded within a certain time period I think.

Is it possible to scan them at a lower resolution or send SCF a smaller sized scan please? Still on Photobucket but smaller?

Richardson
190 Route 772
Lambertville
New Brunswick
E5V 2J0

The RC# (POCON) for this post office is 090034

When you go to the Canada Post website to "Find a Post Office" enter the town or community or postal code and you will get the information for Lambertville as posted above. Then when you click on the actual post office name another page opens with the particulars for that office. Look at the URL for that page and the last six digits are the POCON number.

@Berliner, thanks it works the way you explained it.

I guess I should have spent some time reading puzzler's
initial post for this thread which explains all that also.

Funny though that the POCON # shows up in the URL
on the navigation bar.

@puzzler, I'm sorry that you can't view the pics. But they are
only huge if you click on the image otherwise they're the same
size as the other pics posted on that thread.