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Hope everyone had a great weekend! I just bought a collection that had a couple of interesting items. I came across the below item and was curious if this was a picture used as postage that actually made it through the post office? If so, does that add collector value?  |
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It's collectible as a curiousity. What's curious? The fact that the post office didn't attach a postage due at the receiving end. Fact is, so much mail is auto-cancelled today you could probably attach soup labels to covers and they'd go through. |
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It is a real stamp , cut out of a souvenir sheet .It is valid postage . |
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Floortrader nailed it.  It might be a postage due handstamp that was blackened out. Someone figured out that it was valid postage. Dan  |
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Experienced stamps need a home too. I'd rather have an example that is imperfect than no example.
I collect for enjoyment, not investment.
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| Edited by danstamps54 - 11/23/2015 11:29 am |
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Rest in Peace
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It probably said something such as "POSTAGE DUE, NO VALID POSTAGE" and then the clerk realized it was valid postage |
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Not exactly a non-stamp, but I remember years ago getting a letter with an inverted 1 center used as ten cent postage.  |
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It would be an interesting exhibit piece, for that issue. Since it is airmail, I collect the souvenir sheet and FDC's, but not commercial covers. I still wouldn't mind having it in my collection. |
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I had a post card mailed from Costa Rica with a Chiquita Banana Label as a stamp. |
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I spent a week on a banana plantation some years ago. Bananas everywhere about the house, literally as far as one could see. Oddly enough, I thought, bananas were never served at our meals. Inquiring as to why, I asked the father of the family if anyone ever ate bananas. The whole table roared with laughter. |
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Not exactly a non-stamp, but I remember years ago getting a letter with an inverted 1 center used as ten cent postage. You're right. It was apparently a real problem for the USPS back in the day, so much so that they had to back off of their plan to issue many low denomination stamps this way. Here's a dated news article on the very subject: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...-3039529.php |
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Shortly after I started with the USPS, in 1970 I took a package up to the supervisor and asked what he wanted to do with it to collect the proper postage, he said it has 16 cents postage and why was I questioning it. I said because the person on the stamps was Alfred E. Neumann (sp) from Mad magazine. Once I explained what the stamps were, he started to understand.
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" ... because the person on the stamps was Alfred E. Neumann ..."
Good catch! Of course it couldn't be a real stamp, since the PO only makes stamps of dead people! |
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| Edited by carlberky - 11/24/2015 12:01 am |
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Posted 11/23/2015 10:07 am
