Marker Monkeys And Other Stamp Crimes.

no no brother steve they were getting bored so they decided to play cross and nutes :)

Don't forget the elusive Pencil Monkey.

Forget the marker monkey, how about the Munching Monkey, who EATS the stamps. I just got this cover today.

Canada Post decided to cancel it right side up and upside down after receiving it from the hungry monkey.

A machine technician, is, as we speak,
removing parts of your stamps from the automatic canceller
that was jammed last evening,
grumbling "rotten %@#!*&^ stamp collectors...."

calling all of us names rod?

We as collectors do have reason to gripe about the marking monkey and I know I'm one of them,if you read the letters to the editor section in the APS American Philatelist 07 2010 you will see that some people support them and think that's what there job entails,there are five letter to the editor that you may like to read
and that's just there views.

He's baaaaack...

This time tagged the entire American Revolutionary Militia.

Man, that is disgusting.
He/she has even scribed through the plate number selvedge.
I'd suggest he has more than cancelling on his/her mind.

You would think that the postal service would give the employees a self-dating self-inking rolling aesthetically pleasing canceller that is fun to use and with their employee number on it, that would show up somehow in a pattern recognition program somewhere, so they could tell who has cancelled the most wayward stamps and the employee that had would get a bonus for it.

Then we would get somewhat nicely cancelled stamps, a new collecting area of numbered cancels that we would be possibly able to put a name and face to (employee of the month awards in the postal in-house magazine).

Oh, and that is cheaper than buying black markers or pens in bulk. The employee number or name on would deter thrft as it would turn into a personal item almost.

Don't worry everyone, Puzzler was posting in his sleep.
He'll be OK tomorrow.

Londonbus1.....wakey,wakey Canada !

Waaa?? Is hit times to wakes up now?

I usually toss the marker monkey covers because it defaces the stamps to a point where they are no longer collectible.

Here's an opposite example, however. The fact that the post office tried (but missed) ... twice ... and as certified mail, it would have certainly been seen by the postal clerk before being released to the recipient.

LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO ME!

A jillion £s worth of Machins. Regional panes no less.

HAVE THEY NO MERCY?

I mean like I don't live there. I can't reuse them in the US. What am I gonna do? Put em in an album maybe? It makes a grown man cry.

Oooh, I shuddered when I saw that.
At least the marker colour matched one of the stamp colours, kind of.

Here's another dream I had . . . what if the post offices paid people to return all stamps to them and then sold them to collectors? Probably cost more in bookkeeping costs.

Here we go again - thanks marker monkey (aka Canada Post)