Canada: Stamps: General

I drop that letter off at the post office and asked the clerk to make sure they hand stamped

Tommorrow I will go there and have a little chat about it, I know the owner of the shoppers drug mart that the postal station is in. Think I will have coffee with him and show him how lazy his staff are.
I choosed those kite stamps thinking you would like them.

The new handstruck devices in Canada have the name and address of the postal outlet on them. When the clerk put the mark on the envelope and it goes to the Sorting Station, the Sorting Station people read the address on the postmark and then send it back to the postal outlet. Yes, it is sad but that actually happened to me. It ended up they sent the letter back to me (the sender). I belive this was a problem that they had and that is why they stopped cancelling the stamps with the postmark.

So now I have become friendly with the postal clerks and they let me postmark them myself. I make sure I put the address in the center of the envelope and I add the postmarks around the sides and try to angle the postmark onto the stamps in hopes that they read the address in the middle and not the address on the postmark.

I will be polite rod222, but when I asked the clerk to hand cancel the stamps with the date stamp and she said she would is the reason why I am upset.

Factors to consider

1. she simply forgot and it went into the system
2. she may have went on break and another clerk threw them in the out going mail.

I always try and use stamps on out going mail and many of my feedback comments on ebay this is mention.
I often buy mint collections of Canada and will use the stamps as postage, I normally pick them up for 70% or less of face helps to keep my postage costs down. Many stamps I use have CV much higher then the franking costs. As I do not collect modern Canada I like to use them and let other collectors have them.
Its just a shame when they end up with a lazy pen cancel it make them almost worthless and all my efforts are wasted.

End of rant.

Cheers Admin.
Yes we are all human and make misteaks 
I asked my Postmaster, should it be they, whom scribble across the stamps,
and I was met by a "Oooh no, we are not allowed to do so, we must always cancel by canceller!"

Clerks in busy Regional centres, may have a different agenda.

(Presumed)  First day of issue Slogan Postmark   "Senate of Canada"
FDC 6c Christmas Stamp

1970
Sent by  Major R (Dick) Malott       6 years as editor of the Aerophilatelic Society of Canada

Major Malott also has slides of Aerophilately for use, as follows.  So if your club wants a slide evening............................

Following Ryans's link to the Canadian Cinderella Field Guide,
I noted the "Riel" essay   1869

Here is Australian Monty Wedd's  take on the 1970 Canadian Stamp.......... Louis Riel

The flag to the left of Switzerland on the Moncton postcard is Seychelles.  The flag changed in 1996 from the one shown next to Switzerland on the map you included.

This stamp is somewhat unremarkable, but the machine cancellation caught my eye.  This is one of the "Peace" issue stamps from 1946 - it didn't stay in circulation too long before another 50 cent issue was released in 1950 featuring oil wells.  During that period, postage within Canada was 4 cents for a 1 ounce letter, up to 10 cents for a heavy 4 ounce letter (I don't know how you could jam that much stuff in a regular sized envelope that would be cancelled in a machine, though).  So how would it end up with a machine cancellation?  Special delivery and registration were both 10 cents each, so even if both of those were being used, the cost of postage is still nowhere close to 50 cents.  Also, those services would get a non-machine cancellation, I assume, since they wouldn't be part of the regular mail stream.  Seems odd that such a high-value stamp would have a slogan cancellation after being passed through a machine.



Ryan

Tough day at the soaking sink.

1. Had 50 x Australian 70c stamps, on 1 cover,  in the water, I realised every one had "sellotape" stuck over the top.

2. Had 30 x $1 Canadian stamps on 1 cover.    I lost the lot.... how?

These stamps are water soluble, one immerses, then after a while just lift the stamp off the cover,   easy,
the stamp leaves the tacky gum solution on the envelope or piece.
On my cover EVERY stamp was stuck "overlapping" each other to make room on the cover.
Hence every stamp left a tacky gum solution on the one below it.  No rescue at all. Lost the lot.

Stamps like that go in the same pile as self-adhesives with non-water-soluble layers.  Your Fuelite will allow you to remove the stamps without damage and will also allow you to remove the gum residue.  Even if you've soaked them off cover with water, you can then further soak the stamps in Fuelite to remove the gum residue left on the design surface.  Note, however, that you would need to allow time for the stamps to dry from their soak in water - if you try to move the stamps directly from a water bath to a Fuelite bath, the paper is too soft from water soaking and trying to remove gum residue will almost certainly damage the stamps.

Ryan

Note that the Fuelite method won't work with the water-activated gum stamps (unless there's some sort of mystery chemical breakdown in Fuelite with Canada's water-activated polyvinyl alcohol gum that doesn't happen with other solvents like the paint thinner that I use).  The stamps I sent that you show are almost all WAG - 4 of the 5 wouldn't come off with Fuelite, only the littlest one (and the two etiquettes).

When I soak self-adhesives in the paint thinner that I use, both the stamp paper and the envelope paper get much harder and tougher than when they are soaked in water.  That's actually a real advantage, it helps to remove the stamp from the envelope for those types of self-adhesive gum that are difficult to loosen (for example, some from Brazil).

Ryan

Yes, all Canadian self-adhesive stamps are made that way, with a water-soluble layer between the stamp and the adhesive, similar to many of the old US self-adhesives.  The US self-adhesives that don't soak off in water no longer have that water-soluble layer.  (I should note, I would imagine that the lenticular lens Montreal Canadiens stamps won't soak off in water - those are made in New Zealand and the other examples I've seen from NZ, Austria & Switzerland won't soak off in water.)

Ryan

Those stamps have water activated gum.  They come clean without a problem, they just need to soak longer because of the thickness of the hologram.  I've soaked plenty of them and have never had the hologram come loose, but my normal sink full of stamps will take about 75 minutes or so to clean, plus I allow 20 or 30 minutes of soaking before I start working.  All that time means I have no problems with this hologram stamp.

Ryan

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