What Happen Canada???

What happen Canada? Did all of your postage cancelling devices break at once or have just you decided Not to use them any more.

The last TEN stamp letters and packages I have received from Canada have ALL been pen or black marker canceled, destroying the stamps for collectors. EVERY SINGLE ONE RUINED!!

Its a world wide problem, it happens for mails from UK to Australia to. Post office workers don't care about stamp collectors. Its a shame the stamps are being destroyed. It especially happens with parcels.

ALL of my ebay shipments are hand cancelled at the post office - and I have done that for a decade. My customers don't want unused postage on their shipments - they want used.

Mail I received personally from US, GB, Australia and Canada, plus a few other countries all have been received with the stamps not being cancelled. Canada is not alone with this problem.

Here is a url, for the Canadian part anyway at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/869248826424145/

Chimo

Bujutsu

If you send mail, you need to insist they are to be cancelled. Do not count on the post office to do it at their own leisure as the needs of any collector are typically not on their minds. If they won't then get a postmark mailer's permit to cancel your own mail if your country has such a thing. It exists in the United States.

I received another letter from Canada today. It too was pen canceled. I have NOT received a single letter since last October from Canada that has not been pen or black marker canceled. This makes eleven in a row. I should be receiving another letter from Canada in a few days...
wanna' bet it too is pen canceled?

As pen cancelling is not cost effective what we are seeing is bad process management not malicious disregard for the stamps on cover (IMHO). Can you advise whether the mail you received was either a standard no. 8 or 10 - or were they O/S? If the latter they might not have been able to go through the automated system.

It seems so but the main culprits appear to be Canada, US, UK
and Australia.

For instance I've received mail on a regular basis from Austria
and have never received a letter or postcard
where any stamp was not cancelled properly.
Not 50 years ago and not now.
Maybe the reason being it's a small country of only 8 million,
therefore low volume of mail?
Maybe Austria Post wants to make sure it's not loosing revenue?
Maybe they're more efficient?
Some of what I send has been received there with stamps
left uncancelled but they were not defaced with pen or marker.

Same with all the Canadian domestic mail I receive, which isn't much
anymore, except for Christmas cards and even that's dwindling
year by year.
I would say that probably 10% of mail I get with a stamp
on is not cancelled.
And not one as I recall was pen cancelled.

Actually from the few pen/marker ruined stamps I've
one was on last years Xmas card from the UK.

Two years ago from the 45 RSVP envelopes (daughter's wedding)
that came back, four where not cancelled.
And again none were ruined via pen or marker.

Timm, maybe the marker monkeys are your fellow American
posties.

I know it makes no sense since why would the USPS care whether
Canada Post looses revenue.

All of the pen cancels I have received have been on standard size envelopes. Nothing out of the ordinary.

I receive many letters with uncancelled stamps, but rarely with pen/marker cancels. I suspect that post employees are pen/marker cancelling the stamps they see uncancelled. Timm, are your letters coming from multiple post offices or a single one? Is it possible that the person delivering the mail to you is pen/marker cancelling the uncancelled ones?

In the past two weeks I have gotten 3 letters from two different cities in Canada; all 3 letters were pen canceled.

Even if they were pen canceled in the US that still means Canada is not canceling their own stamps.