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An anonymous person mailed a nice THANK YOU card to us for our Christmas lights, but the Marker Monkey had to ruin it...  |
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I understand when Pictorial Postmarks sometimes get regular postmarks as well, but pen?? C'mon...  |
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That's awful! That looks like a postmark you specifically sent off for. Way to ruin a good cover. |
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 Never in the course of human events have so many stamps been ruined by so few ... okay, overdoing it, but color me  Cheers, /s/ ikeyPikey (who is disappointed that the sender, a long-established supplies dealer, does not have a cooperating postal clerk who will postmark their packages or, better yet, a Mailer's Postmark Permit) |
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If an envelope has stamps all over it then a machine probably can't handle it rapidly and the post worker can cancel the letters faster with one sweep of a pen rather than a thump thump thump of a hand held canceller. The person in the sorting office is dealing with mail sorting and delivery not Philately. That doesn't seem to apply to Coinsearchers example. |
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The Coinsearcher83 and Nells250 posts indicate bad attitudes by the defacers; the stamps which were obviously cancelled were rendered worthless to the collectors. |
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The Post Office's Revenue Protection Section is still active. I got this one in the mail yesterday. You gotta give 'em credit, they do a thorough job! Glad I don't collect U.S. anymore. Don  |
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Not mine but I did see it on another site and thought it should be added here.  |
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 This was delivered to me yesterday. Sorry for the bad picture. It is the 3649g – 2002 37c Masters of American Photography: Edward Steichen and 3649h – 2002 37c Masters of American Photography: Alfred Stieglitz stamps. |
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