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Post by daniel on Dec 8, 2022 21:15:54 GMT
Received this yesterday. It seems disrespectful but, on the other hand, if the line was vertical and between Charles and Harry, it would be very topical  Not sure what the pink bit is, has the stamp been re-used?  |
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renden
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What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Dec 8, 2022 22:14:44 GMT
danielLet's be respectful now - those British and their Monarchy - They ruled the World (at a time....) and stamps too  I am of FRANCE genealogy (Quebec....1st ancestor to help Champlain and be recognized as one of the 1st colonizer of - just french stuff) Funny thing: I still like the Monarchy (yours) Both my Grandfathers received (for WWII) the O.B.E medals - and I am proud (even as a "frenchie" - LOL I am proud we finally got a Canadian Flag and stopped using the Union Jack LOL ! ....we are still in the Confederation........ René
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djcmh
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What I collect: Worldwide
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Post by djcmh on Dec 9, 2022 3:14:39 GMT
In the past couple of days, I received a package from Gene ( djcmh ) containing a new copy of the 2023 Stanley Gibbons Catalogue. Thanks for that, Gene. Although it appears that you went to the trouble of getting the stamps hand cancelled (much appreciated), some other postal clerk somewhere else along the way apparently decided that those red cancels were too faint to prevent re-use, and so has christened this nice array of stamps with a Sharpie marker..... sigh. Sadly, these are headed for the bin.   Oh how sad - they were nicely lightly hand postmarked by my favorite counter clerk. |
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Post by nick2302 on Nov 15, 2023 21:19:38 GMT
Moderator Note: This post and the two immediately following were originally located in a new thread titled: When postal clerks scratch through a stamp. As this topic proved to be about postal carriers' use of ballpoint pens to cancel stamps, these posts have now been added to this long-existing thread on the same subject.
I got a great envelope that had some nice older Canadian stamps on them. But I was sad to see a person with a black ink pen cancelled the stamp. I have gotten some where someone took an ink pen and drew circles, big dark and many circles across really nice stamps. <Sigh> makes stamp collector tear up when they see the damage that was done to a perfectly fine group of stamps on an envelope.
Nick
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khj
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Post by khj on Nov 15, 2023 23:57:31 GMT
I used to have an online philatelic buddy who collected pen cancelled modern stamps! Never had problems acquiring them! Mail carriers seemed to love the long coils of 10 -- just swipe the pen/Sharpie straight across, don't even need to zig-zag.
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Cephus
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What I collect: U.S. 1847-1993, Australia, China, New Zealand
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Post by Cephus on Nov 16, 2023 20:48:45 GMT
You have to remember that the purpose of the post office isn't to cater to collectors, it's to move the mails. Having people collect stamps is a sideline to their entire purpose for existing. They don't care about leaving quality stamps for collectors.
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wakeybluenose
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What I collect: GB to 2000 (but definitives to date) / Ireland to 2000 / General WW classics & definitives / ASFEC / SciFi & Fantasy Literature / Local History
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Post by wakeybluenose on Sept 26, 2024 12:58:41 GMT
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Not sure what the pink bit is, has the stamp been re-used?
