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Posted 11/13/2022 10:10 pm

Apologies if this has been listed before:

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Posted 11/13/2022 10:21 pm

After seeing '2013' I hit stop.

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Posted 11/13/2022 10:40 pm

I watched this. Thank you for posting this James!

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Posted 11/14/2022 12:01 am

Nice Video, enjoyed.
First time I have witnessed the perforation pins being installed, sadly
the definition failed to show the pins making the ellipses.

Costs mentioned included Designer payments, never seen any reference
to these, just a foggy memory USPS pays a maximum of $5,000
but not sure the date of that read.

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Posted 11/14/2022 9:55 pm

A good video. Informative. Enjoyable. Soothing.

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Posted 11/15/2022 6:36 pm

Great video - I had no idea about these processes. Thanks for sharing it.

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Posted 11/15/2022 7:05 pm

Well done, informative video; thank you for posting. It's quite interesting to see the new or current technology...and at the same time, the perforation setup is essentially done by hand too!

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Posted 11/15/2022 8:24 pm

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After seeing '2013' I hit stop.

Why was that? Only interested in post 2013 production methods, or?

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Posted 11/15/2022 8:59 pm

Interesting and fun, but I would still rather have one of the percussion cap (gunpowder) essays then some of the modern stamps on "unusual" surfaces. Yes, someone thought it was a good idea to have a percussion cap in a stamp so that when you hit it with a cancelling device, the cap would blow a hole in the stamp, preventing reuse.

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Posted 11/15/2022 9:05 pm

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Yes, someone thought it was a good idea to have a percussion cap in a stamp so that when you hit it with a cancelling device, the cap would blow a hole in the stamp, preventing reuse.

The Chinese were way ahead of everyone, they simply made the outer ring of the CDS (Circular Date Stamp) with a Knurled finish.
(Same as the US Grill )

When the hammer was struck, the diamond points broke the paper
and the cancelling ink infused.

Never understood why that never caught on.

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Posted 11/16/2022 07:55 am

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Why was that? Only interested in post 2013 production methods, or?

It was like a flashback to school in the 1970s when all of the educational movies they put on were already old. I will watch it. I was just being hasty.

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Posted 11/19/2022 07:22 am

27 million dollar haul selling postal labels never intended to carry any mail yet we call them postage stamps?

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