Canada Modern Pocon Postmarks / Cancels

Further information:

I wanted to see what the 'Y." meant and so . . .

Canada Post info:
LES MARCHÉS PÉPIN INC
825 BOUL YVON L'HEUREUX
BELOEIL QC J3G 5P0 (shows a Post Office only postal code, ending in '0'.)

Google Maps info:
Marchés Pepin (IGA) (Marchés loosely translates to Market, Serge Pepin is the owner.)
825 Boulevard Yvon l'Heureux Nord, Beloeil, QC J3G 2C9 (shows actual street address postal code for the large store.)

Thanks for the clarifications Puzzler.

My post is now modified to read "IGA on Yvon L'Heureux St".

It appears that the postal outlet is located within the IGA, but having a different postal code from the market itself. Could this be a common procedure? I'll advise if I find similar situations.

Actually, this is a common occurrance.

The Post Office has a postal code ending in zero, as per all Post Offices in Canada, but the drug store, grocery store, and whatever other establishment where the post office resides within does have it's own postal code.

So, I imagine that some people, setting up the letters and numbers (and possibly graphics) on a POCON cancelling device, do use the handiest postal code they can access, at times.


Even on Canada Post, tthere are some Post Offices listed with a non-zero-ending postal code.

It's alright with me of course! Makes for varieties to collect!

Here's one I posted on another thread.
No pretty stamp, I'm afraid.



100118 Kitsilano RPO Vancouver

I believe on my other thread I had asked about the RPO. Now I know.

Great thread by the way. Very informative.

Thank you from me and all who contribute.

A meter with a cancel is a rare site, and nic to see.

275086
ST-HERMENEGILDE, QC, J0B2W0
2011-01-25

272188
STE-ANNE DES LACS, QC, J0R1B0,
2011-01-24

Pocon postmark
069051
STRATFORD, ON, N5A 2L0
2013 -04- 08

Pocon cancellation
350982
Country Hills RPO (Retail Postal Outlet)
CALGARY, AB, T3K 4Y0
2013 -04- 09

Circle 42mm in diameter
on a 2013 <P> Raccoon animal stamp.


Canada Post PO info:
SHOPPERS DRUG MART #0373
725 - 500 COUNTRY HILLS BLVD N
CALGARY AB T3K 4Y0
(unit #725 at the address 500 Country Hills Boulevard North)

edit: changed mistake made on Pocon number. Thanks to Major0104.

Pocon
152447
LAWTONS GLADSTONE POST OFFICE
No City or Province named (Halifax, NS)
B3K 4P0
2013 -04- 11

Circle 37mm in diameter on a postal stationery envelope
with a preprinted Flower stamp indicia of <P> African Violets.


Searched Canada Post for postal code:
LAWTONS DRUGS #163
6155 NORTH ST
HALIFAX NS B3K 4P0

Puzzler, the Pocon for Country Hills RPO in Calgary should read 350982

185787
ST-FELICIEN, QC, G8K1A0
2011-01-24

273267
NORMETAL, QC, J0Z3A0
2011-01-21

276111
ST-SIMON-DE-BAGOT, QC, J0H1Y0
3011-01-21

Stamps showing two Ice Vessels ships, the 14c St. Roch and 14c Labrador, as well as the 14c Grey Nuns stamp, with a double strike of a POCON postmark from

690694
NANISIVIK, NWT . . (now NANISIVIK, NU or Nunavut)
X0A 0X0
1979 -08- dd (unknown day) (?? VIII 1979)
Arch - 31.5 x 29.5 mm.



In 1999 the Northwest Territories split into the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

The year date on the cancel does not match the issue dates of the stamps used on the envelope. The two Ice Vessels stamps, the 14c St. Roch and 14c Labrador, as well as the 14c Grey Nuns stamp were issued in Fall 1978.

Nanisivk, a retired mining comunnity, is slightly inland from Arctic Bay, NU, X0A 0A0, an Inuit hamlet on the Northern coast of Baffin Island.

edit: changed date from 1976 to 1979, typos.