Fed Up With Pen Cancellations!

I agree with Dan. The USPS mission statement defines its basic functions...



Stamp collecting is not mentioned as a core function and is simply a collateral profit center for the USPS. I assume that the vast majority of taxpayers, who are not stamp collectors, would rather the USPS be use efficient cost saving procedures and use safeguards that prevent reuse.

Although my experience is limited to my own local delivery, it seems that older stamp more frequently get pen cancelled. It may be that they cause humans to get involved rather than stay purely in the automated mail stream.
Don

Most of this stuff with ballpoint pens is being done not to cancel the stamps for revenue protection. The majority of what I see is on stamps already neatly cancelled. It's something else.

I think they hate us.

'Us' refers to stamp collectors. It's their way of telling us to go ### ourselves, much of it being done by local carriers and sorters.

We once had a carrier doing this stuff. He'd sit in his van on his breaks with a pile of letters, defacing stamps. I tried asking him not to do it, he creeped out on me. I then took examples of his work to the local carrier office and got yelled at by the woman in charge who told me all stamp collectors are crooks. We just pretend to collect stamps when all we want is to reuse them.

Postal workers have a reputation for being a bit off center. It's often justified.

So do stamp collectors... and it's almost ALWAYS justified.

You beat me to it.

My only thought is that the postal delivery person was color blind and thought they were not cancelled.

The marker monkey may not have realized that the CDS canceled the stamps and, therefor, added a killer.

And, speaking of marker monkeys ...

https://goscf.com/t/3853 ... Marker Monkeys and other Stamp Crimes.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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"We are also entitled to our good luck."

Here is a nicely canceled and happily unmolested cover from Canada.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey