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I gotta ask my facer-canceller repair guy, but my guess is that while they were fixing the machine and/or clearing a jam, the rest of that shift's mail was run thru other machines ... so they grabbed a handful of mail to run & re-run until they were satisfied that the machine was in good running order.
Nice find, especially with that nice, bright, cheery, festive yellow cover.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
Another possibility posted by a member of The Stamp Forum is that when postal employees in a sorting unit are under review they might run items through multiple times if they are concerned about possible manpower reductions due to decreased mail volume.
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Yes, that is the sort of thing a Stamp Forum member might say.
Good thing that USPS management has been known to not care about falsified activity reports by frontline supervisors. Not.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
I don’t believe anyone is condoning any such practice, just reporting that it might have happened and why.
"... reporting that it might have happened and why ..."
That does make sense about using the cover for testing. Sounds very plausible. Also the ink is very heavy, perhaps they had run dry and were testing to make sure the cancels were legible and the inking even. All conjecture, but fun to try to puzzle it out.
I miss the old cancels! So much nicer than the sprays. Yeah I know the sprays don’t damage as many stamps and the new equipment speeds up processing, but I used to move my stamps over to the left to capture the CDS and try for a sock on the nose, Miss that!
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My own take is that:
- the sprays are an awful sort of damage, in that they are so often illegible & smudged ... and that's before you hit them with the Pure Citrus ... and
- the stamps are being torn more often than ever, but my GUESS is that the ever-more-automated processes are being run at ever-higher-speeds than the older systems.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
The USPS employee may have been using this cover to test the cancelling device? Note the recipient’s comment, haha!
re: SEVEN machine cancels on one cover!
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I gotta ask my facer-canceller repair guy, but my guess is that while they were fixing the machine and/or clearing a jam, the rest of that shift's mail was run thru other machines ... so they grabbed a handful of mail to run & re-run until they were satisfied that the machine was in good running order.
Nice find, especially with that nice, bright, cheery, festive yellow cover.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: SEVEN machine cancels on one cover!
Another possibility posted by a member of The Stamp Forum is that when postal employees in a sorting unit are under review they might run items through multiple times if they are concerned about possible manpower reductions due to decreased mail volume.
re: SEVEN machine cancels on one cover!
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Yes, that is the sort of thing a Stamp Forum member might say.
Good thing that USPS management has been known to not care about falsified activity reports by frontline supervisors. Not.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: SEVEN machine cancels on one cover!
I don’t believe anyone is condoning any such practice, just reporting that it might have happened and why.
re: SEVEN machine cancels on one cover!
"... reporting that it might have happened and why ..."
re: SEVEN machine cancels on one cover!
That does make sense about using the cover for testing. Sounds very plausible. Also the ink is very heavy, perhaps they had run dry and were testing to make sure the cancels were legible and the inking even. All conjecture, but fun to try to puzzle it out.
I miss the old cancels! So much nicer than the sprays. Yeah I know the sprays don’t damage as many stamps and the new equipment speeds up processing, but I used to move my stamps over to the left to capture the CDS and try for a sock on the nose, Miss that!
re: SEVEN machine cancels on one cover!
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My own take is that:
- the sprays are an awful sort of damage, in that they are so often illegible & smudged ... and that's before you hit them with the Pure Citrus ... and
- the stamps are being torn more often than ever, but my GUESS is that the ever-more-automated processes are being run at ever-higher-speeds than the older systems.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey