Post Office Strikes Again

Here is another post office disaster I received in the mail yesterday.

I know that Canada Post, Royal Mail, USPO, and other countries are notorious for not cancelling their mail, which is bad enough, but, I hate it when they pen cancel stamps. I am not sure if this was done here in Canada on receiving, or by the Royal Post Office. Either way, the stamps are now useless to me. It would have been a new commemorative stamp plus a new denomination for my Machin Heads, but, I can't add these to my collection.

Chimo

Bujutsu

This is terrorism against art.

While I agree it is frustrating, I don't think that it makes the stamp uncollectible. Hell, look at all the pencil/ink cancels of early revenues. I know it's not apples to oranges, but I bet there are some people out there who collect this ink vandalism.

Collectible!

It is a genuine postal marking, and it is clean (single line each stamp).

That having been said, I feel your pain: not every genuine postal marking is appropriate or attractive.

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I once knew/met a guy who collected automobile license plates from around the world.

The hobbyists cooperate, 'raiding' junkyards in their own countries, and as they travel. Then, they trade.

One day, driving thru a local semi-autonomous region, he stops at a print shop.

On the way in, he passes a car with license plates from a neighboring national area.

Inside the print shop are two policemen of the local semi-autonomous region.

He overhears the policemen ordering new license plates for the car.

Q/ Are the license plates collectible?

A/ The 'rule' is that they have to be 'official', and these were being put into service by policemen, so ...

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Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

While I agree it may be a genuine postal cancellation, it adds no value to the stamps or the cover. No date use, no town, no time stamp; nothing that would make the cover more interesting than someone putting stamps on an envelop and then taking a pen and drawing a line across them.

Wonder why the first three stamps are all missing a similar perf or two on the lower left side?

Royal Mail is now having trials in the use of small handstamps for staff at some Mail Centers to cancel at least some of the mail missed by machine. No news regarding any further roll-out to include delivery staff yet.

Excellent, good to see some personal attention being paid to the mails. This remains throughout stamp history as a testament to the wrok of individuals, rather than corporations and adds vale as mentioned.



The value perceived is in the stamps, through their possible varieties or differences, even the colours and perforations, etc.



Is that the elliptical perforation, the concatenation (chain link) or other word to do with music?
See either web site
Adminware Machins http://www.adminware.ca/machin.htm , or
Ian Norvic Philatelics http://blog.norphil.co.uk/ , or the main site http://www.norphil.co.uk/

I've been told that it's an acceptable practice but most collectors find it less collectible than a typical post mark.