Today's facer-canceller machines are murder on stamps placed at the right edge of a cover or postcard.
Leave a one centimeter / half-inch margin for better results.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
I use number 9 envelopes and a stiffener cut from a regular weight 3 tsb file folder for just that reason (you get 3 per file folder)- they seem to travel through the machinery a lot better.
Use new folders - they are cheap and afford a decent presentation.
Interesting that your envelope was wallpapered with stamps and mine came with a single nonprofit USA stamp. Wonder how they decide what stamps get used.....
I don't think it matters where on the envelope the stamp is placed. Much of my philatelic mail comes with the stamps either uncancelled or torn, sometimes both! I think it has more to do with thickness.
Thickness...yes the envelope was thick come to think of it!
"mine came with a single nonprofit USA stamp.
"
To Mickey To: Your APS membership is worth it but what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. The monthly journal is worth $45 itself but you also have access to the library at reduced fees, seminars - more of which are being put on-line, the 2 big stamp shows each year - which are not always accessible geographically or financially (it costs money to travel), the expertizing service and your support of other programs the society offers. I really only use the journal and have used the library once, but I get fulfillment from knowing that I am supporting something much bigger than me for organized philately.
So don't drop out - keep at it, it is a rewarding thing to be a part of.
"My new dilemma is to decide if the $45 membership fee is worth what I get out of it, or should I spend that on new stamps?"
Interesting that on the mailings I get from Quensio (the German postal delivery survey) the highest denomination "400" stamp always has a bent corner when it gets to me - 100% of the time (from 40+ mailings) and the only stamp damaged (none of the smaller denominations).
I can't even soak it off to use in my collection or for anyone else's. Very frustrating!
I guess mail processing technology is just not kind to collectors any more...
Dave.
99% of the mail I send out I get hand cancelled and at the philatelic PO's it can be placed in the Hand Sort tub so it does not go through the sorting machine.
Even if I post at the local LPO , which I hand cancel my out going mail I keep the stamp/s well away from the edge of the cover and lower down so if it does go through the machine the automatic canceler misses the stamp.
Brian
I was sad that the envelope with my membership letter got damaged. I guess there's not much they can do to prevent it. :-(
re: APS Cover Damaged
Today's facer-canceller machines are murder on stamps placed at the right edge of a cover or postcard.
Leave a one centimeter / half-inch margin for better results.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: APS Cover Damaged
I use number 9 envelopes and a stiffener cut from a regular weight 3 tsb file folder for just that reason (you get 3 per file folder)- they seem to travel through the machinery a lot better.
Use new folders - they are cheap and afford a decent presentation.
re: APS Cover Damaged
Interesting that your envelope was wallpapered with stamps and mine came with a single nonprofit USA stamp. Wonder how they decide what stamps get used.....
re: APS Cover Damaged
I don't think it matters where on the envelope the stamp is placed. Much of my philatelic mail comes with the stamps either uncancelled or torn, sometimes both! I think it has more to do with thickness.
re: APS Cover Damaged
Thickness...yes the envelope was thick come to think of it!
re: APS Cover Damaged
"mine came with a single nonprofit USA stamp.
"
re: APS Cover Damaged
To Mickey To: Your APS membership is worth it but what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. The monthly journal is worth $45 itself but you also have access to the library at reduced fees, seminars - more of which are being put on-line, the 2 big stamp shows each year - which are not always accessible geographically or financially (it costs money to travel), the expertizing service and your support of other programs the society offers. I really only use the journal and have used the library once, but I get fulfillment from knowing that I am supporting something much bigger than me for organized philately.
So don't drop out - keep at it, it is a rewarding thing to be a part of.
re: APS Cover Damaged
"My new dilemma is to decide if the $45 membership fee is worth what I get out of it, or should I spend that on new stamps?"
re: APS Cover Damaged
Interesting that on the mailings I get from Quensio (the German postal delivery survey) the highest denomination "400" stamp always has a bent corner when it gets to me - 100% of the time (from 40+ mailings) and the only stamp damaged (none of the smaller denominations).
I can't even soak it off to use in my collection or for anyone else's. Very frustrating!
I guess mail processing technology is just not kind to collectors any more...
Dave.
re: APS Cover Damaged
99% of the mail I send out I get hand cancelled and at the philatelic PO's it can be placed in the Hand Sort tub so it does not go through the sorting machine.
Even if I post at the local LPO , which I hand cancel my out going mail I keep the stamp/s well away from the edge of the cover and lower down so if it does go through the machine the automatic canceler misses the stamp.
Brian