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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 11, 2013 14:27:23 GMT
I gave a letter to the postman, he put it his sack. Bright in early next morning, he brought my letter back. She wrote upon it: Return to sender, address unknown. No such number, no such zone... So the Elvis song goes. A while ago I saw an item on eBay that consisted of 1000+ RTS covers. The starting bid was 1c! So I put a bid of $20 and forgot about it. Low and behold I did win the lot AND for just 1 cent. To make things even better the seller lived 15 minutes away so there was no postage cost...I rushed over and picked up. Here they were in my kitchen:
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 11, 2013 14:32:24 GMT
It took me a few weeks to go through all of them. Some were a bit mouldy and I had to cut out the interesting bits, most were postage-paid (no stamp) and all were 'return to sender': Here are some of the bits I rescued:
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 11, 2013 14:34:52 GMT
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 11, 2013 14:40:51 GMT
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 11, 2013 14:43:14 GMT
I kept a few and sold the rest...er...for a lot more that 1c!
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kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Oct 17, 2020 0:31:48 GMT
But this example threw me. Then I saw the genius of it. Someone figured how to get back a letter sent one-way on a Clipper trans-Atlantic first flight; Return to Sender.
It was mailed from Geneva, by train to Marseilles, then sacked onto the return first flight of Pan Am Clipper FAM 18. Addressed to General Delivery (Poste Restante), it sat the required penance in New York, until they gave up and sent it back to the sender. Returned mail normally is not charged. If I have it right, the whole process took a couple months, but it worked. On-line I spotted another example; a skunky dealer in the UK doing the same. Clever and naughty.
The only glitch in my interpretation: no return cancels. That I cannot explain.
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