How Did This Slip By The Cancel Machine...?

From Prime Vision (http://www.primevision.com/#hp_innovation )



Touted as 'revenue protection' they use OCR to detect mail which is short postage.

It would explain my antidotal observation that using vintage postage always seems to take longer to get processed. (The automated equipment kicks it out and has to be hand processed.) Perhaps also helps explain the 'marker monkeys' frequency with vintage postage?

I would also think that they would keep the database as efficient as possible by NOT loading decades of stamp design to be recognized.
Don

Prime Vision's technology may have those capabilities, but has it been implemented anywhere? If so, is anything actually happening to the underpaid mail? Are carriers increasing the frequency of ringing doorbells to collect a few extra pennies?

Don't know about you good folks, but at least 75% of the mail coming through the door isn't cancelled in any way.

Quite how that protects revenue eludes me.

They are owned (in part) by PostNL. Their customers include USPS, FedEx, DHL, and Australia Post, and Japan Post. I am searching for some Press Releases but cannot seem to find any at the moment.

Some more info...
https://www.postalandparceltechnolo...ss-rate.html




Don

Along Machaggis52's line, I don't see any return on investment.

I agree that the point is moot, first class mail is dead anyway. And stamps have already transitioned to 'profit centers' for many postal services; I think this is a death spiral for stamps. Issuing stamps for mostly collectors will not help the hobby in any way.
Don

The interesting point is that no matter how the USPS Stamp Services does (maybe good for exec compensation, metrics, travel) it will not make a meaningful impact to USPS finances.

Taking at $2 FV block of 4 stamps that cost a few pennies to produce and putting them in a plastic bag with a cardboard stiffener is not cost effective.

I have just pulled up some pages from the Canada Post site of definations at https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/...sary-e.asp#T

Interesting as the info is dated June 18,2018.

It confirms that the OCR reads addresses and postal codes, it also says the tagging on stamps is used to make it positively identifiable to an automatic facer canceller. I do not have knowledge of which hardware and software Canada Post is using, and while software is available maybe Canada Post did not ask or pay for this feature. Still it does not explain why stamps from the later 70's up are not cancelled as they do have the tagging. Otherwise, why tag stamps as Gilles asks?

Mike

Mike...I tried your link..To me it does not work buddy..

Robert

Try it now Robert. Thanks for that. Appreciated.

Mike

Much better Mike..

Robert

soak 'em, re-use 'em, serves 'em right!

jamesw..Makes you wonder where the stamps come from when a dealer says "Mint, no gum"

Robert

True wert. But if they were a real dealer, and had any knowledge, they'd know that if there ain't no gum, it ain't mint.

Can we get a little deeper into the "mint, no gum"..

a mint stamp is a stamp with a printed area on one side and gum on the reverse..correct..??

What about stamps in Canada printed by mistake on the gum side..We now have a mint stamp printed on one side BUT with NO gum on the back..Can we now classify this as "Mint, no gum"...?

Robert