Season's Greetings Cancellation

I'm just curious if anyone feels the same way about this. All of my christmas cards this year have been showing up with a big "Season's Greetings" cancellation, and they've blotted out almost every stamp I've tried to save so far. I usually buy the US stamps all year from the post office, but I tend to skip the Christmas stamps and save copies that come in the mail. This year, this huge smudge of a cancel is ruining many of them. Very disappointing. I may have to go buy them after all.

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The post office is definitely going to use up a lot of ink spraying that on! I've gotten a couple of those. Talk about obliterating the stamp! Not real worried about keeping collectors happy with that idea are they?

All my recent mail has been spray painted too. Sad when you cant hardly ID the stamp.

I agree. I collect modern US used stamps from the mail
and this "Season's Greetings" cancellation makes the stamp
almost unrecognizable.

I've been taking my mail to a small-town post office
nearby that still hand stamps all of their outgoing mail.
They provide a nice-looking more traditional cancellation.

Same here .. all of the cancels on what little mail I get have been very heavy.

Received this one today -- by far the sharpest, clearest, least offensive one I've received this year...



Kirk

I have two covers that are not so bad. One of them canceled the normal way and one with the Season's Greetings blob. If anyone wants a decent cancel on a Christmas stamp please wait for the season to be over and then list the one(s) you need and if I have one I will donate it.

Peter

Horrible cancellation and a waste of ink

I didn't get a chance this year, so I am by no means superior or properly snobbish, but it is one of the reasons I like to mail them to the special Christmas cancellations every-year. North Pole station, or Snowflake Arizona, etc.
If anybody notices or appreciates the trip the letters take, probably not. But at least it feels more proper.

This just showed up today with a purchase I made on ebay from a seller in New Jersey. That is supposed to be First Class postage in the corner with a pretty pathetic cancel.